Netflix’s True Crime Boom Is at a Dangerous Crossroads
55 years ago

Netflix’s True Crime Boom Is at a Dangerous Crossroads

Slate  

Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel vaulted to the top of Netflix’s Top 10 when it was released, part of the streaming service’s relentlessly growing portfolio of true crime product. Crime Scene’s diversions, on the other hand, feel like an effort to ramp up the spookiness of the story and stretch out the mystery to fill out Netflix’s multipart template—the creators of Making a Murderer, which laid the groundwork for the service’s true crime boom, initially pitched an eight-hour series, and Netflix suggested 10. There is a thin line between honoring a victim’s story and capitalizing on it, and the more recent Netflix true crime documentaries fail to stay on the right side of it. You can trace the lineage of the recent boom in true crime series back through Making a Murderer to 2004’s The Staircase, the eight-part documentary about the murder trial of novelist Michael Peterson.

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The 24x7 Craving For Crime Watch
2 months ago

The 24x7 Craving For Crime Watch

Deccan Chronicle  

True crime content has skyrocketed in recent years, becoming a dominant force on streaming platforms like Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon Prime. This is why many are drawn to true crime — it gives them a sense of preparedness as if they’re mentally equipping themselves to handle possible threats.” Crime Content Craze It’s 11 p.m., and the TV or mobile screen …

True crime's popularity brings real change for defendants and society. It's not all good
2 months ago

True crime's popularity brings real change for defendants and society. It's not all good

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Please enter a valid email address Please enter a valid email address SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. The popularity and proliferation of …

The Rise of True Crime: A New Generation of Spectators and Victims
2 months ago

The Rise of True Crime: A New Generation of Spectators and Victims

Associated Press  

The popularity of true crime entertainment has brought real change for defendants and society. But because many of these products prioritize entertainment and profit, they also can have serious negative consequences. The use of true crime stories to sell a product has a long history in America, from the tabloid “penny press” papers of the mid-1800s to television movies like …

'Mean World Syndrome’: Bingeing true crime shows can harm your mental health
6 months, 1 week ago

'Mean World Syndrome’: Bingeing true crime shows can harm your mental health

Hindustan Times  

The thrill of sitting at the edge of your seat is addictive, but the subsequent chill creeping down your spine isn’t worth it. Binge-watching true crime is all-consuming, even addictive; these shows dissect the darker side of human behaviour, retelling the most traumatizing crimes in a dramatised format for public consumption. True crime shows like House of Secrets: The Burari …

Crime Time
8 months, 3 weeks ago

Crime Time

Deccan Chronicle  

Across the world, people have always been a sucker for crime shows and suspense thrillers. For many viewers watching crime shows sort is a distraction to immerse themselves in a captivating and exciting fictional world. Thrilling Escape Michelle Khiangte, a public relations professional from Bengaluru finds crime shows incredibly intriguing, especially real-life drama and murder mysteries. Crime shows also illustrate …

True-Crime Canon: 25 best podcasts, documentaries, and books.
10 months, 3 weeks ago

True-Crime Canon: 25 best podcasts, documentaries, and books.

Slate  

True-crime fandom may be booming, but that doesn’t mean that our cultural fascination with evil and transgression is new. Originally published in four parts for the New Yorker, Capote’s tale of a grisly murder on a Kansas farm offered exquisite, meditative insight into the minds of killers and the community upended by their violence—a far cry from “If it bleeds, …

The novelists skewering the ickiness of true crime
1 year, 5 months ago

The novelists skewering the ickiness of true crime

The Independent  

Did you listen to the podcast?” asks the narrator of Eliza Clark’s new novel, Penance. “You’ll have all over the front pages and then a year or two later, it’ll be out in novels: you can see the process of the writers themselves getting hooked on these stories, realising how fascinating they are.” The most influential – and intriguing – …

Amanda Knox: Netflix’s Jeffrey Dahmer series is everything that’s wrong with true crime
2 years, 2 months ago

Amanda Knox: Netflix’s Jeffrey Dahmer series is everything that’s wrong with true crime

The Independent  

The latest headlines from our reporters across the US sent straight to your inbox each weekday Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. “The most egregious thing that the Dahmer series …

Here is a list of crime shows that can delve deep into the human mind
2 years, 4 months ago

Here is a list of crime shows that can delve deep into the human mind

Firstpost  

Be it suspense, crimes that send chills down your spine, or gut-wrenching murders, these web series have it all. Add them to you watch-list While everyone is hooked on internationally acclaimed Money Heist and Breaking Bad, we really need to take a moment to appreciate some of the really badass crime shows that might have gone unnoticed. Be it suspense, …

True-crime podcasts coming to a limited series near you
2 years, 6 months ago

True-crime podcasts coming to a limited series near you

LA Times  

The ongoing popularity of podcasts has provided fertile ground for TV adaptations, as producers, networks and other developers latch on to the deep, first-person journalistic reporting in podcasts to launch more glossy, A-list-starring reinventions. “It’s a new way to do voice-over, and I love that podcasting is considered so modern and in the zeitgeist — but is also a wonderful …

True crime is one of TV’s top genres. Critics say it’s failing us
3 years, 6 months ago

True crime is one of TV’s top genres. Critics say it’s failing us

LA Times  

You’d be forgiven for believing that Joseph James DeAngelo, a.k.a. “Michelle and I were very close,” says Paul Holes, a retired cold case investigator in the Contra Costa Country Sheriff’s Office who features heavily in HBO’s adaptation, which premieres a follow-up special on Monday. Former Detective Chief Superintendent Steve Wilkins, whose cold case work was recently dramatized on BritBox’s “The …

'Blew my mind': Son of Sam serial killer may not have acted alone -- according to new Netflix show
3 years, 8 months ago

'Blew my mind': Son of Sam serial killer may not have acted alone -- according to new Netflix show

Raw Story  

Netflix's new series "The Sons of Sam: A Descent into Darkness" digs into the idea that there's more to the Son of Sam serial killer case we thought we knew... and that we're still not safe. Zeman spoke with Salon about the making of the four-part docuseries, how the Son of Sam murders changed the face of tabloid journalism, and …

10 best true-crime documentaries, from Filthy Rich to The Confession Killer
4 years, 6 months ago

10 best true-crime documentaries, from Filthy Rich to The Confession Killer

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. – Netflix US and UK This five-part series, released …

Criminal, Netflix review: a brilliantly odd mix of David Tennant, foreign crime drama and Line of Duty's interrogation scenes
5 years, 3 months ago

Criminal, Netflix review: a brilliantly odd mix of David Tennant, foreign crime drama and Line of Duty's interrogation scenes

The Telegraph  

At a time when television seems obsessed with broadening its scope – global location-hopping, huge budgets, vast all-star casts, epic fantasy worlds – Criminal is a bracing blast of fresh air. The anthology series is set almost entirely inside a police interview room, where suspects played by a guest cast are interrogated by a regular team of detectives, trying to …

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