{"id":513121,"date":"2022-11-21T00:30:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-20T21:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/tvs-true-crime-obsession-is-reaching-a-tipping-point\/"},"modified":"2022-11-21T00:30:00","modified_gmt":"2022-11-20T21:30:00","slug":"tvs-true-crime-obsession-is-reaching-a-tipping-point","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/tvs-true-crime-obsession-is-reaching-a-tipping-point\/","title":{"rendered":"#TV\u2019s True Crime Obsession Is Reaching a Tipping Point"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a2c5a757d772\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a2c5a757d772\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/tvs-true-crime-obsession-is-reaching-a-tipping-point\/#TVs_True_Crime_Obsession_Is_Reaching_a_Tipping_Point\" >TV\u2019s True Crime Obsession Is Reaching a Tipping Point<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"TVs_True_Crime_Obsession_Is_Reaching_a_Tipping_Point\"><\/span>TV\u2019s True Crime Obsession Is Reaching a Tipping Point<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    In Nanfu Wang\u2019s docu<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">series<\/a> <em>Mind Over Murder<\/em>, the town of Beatrice, Nebraska, is still struggling with a 38-year-old tragedy. Six people were convicted of raping and murdering a woman in 1985, but DNA evidence exonerated them decades later. The six-part HBO series chronicles the extended miscarriage of justice with a focus on the town\u2019s unique coping mechanism: A local community theater did a staged reading of court records and tran<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">script<\/a>s. It\u2019s storytelling as confrontation therapy and, in one of the year\u2019s best TV offerings, it\u2019s an exploration of how our insatiable appetite for true crime, so often presented in voyeuristic terms, can be healing for those most personally involved with the tragedy, and for our societal wounds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    Throw in the myriad examples of true-crime content that have contributed to the exoneration of the innocent (<em>The Thin Blue Line<\/em>, <em>Serial<\/em>) or targeted the guilty (<em>The Jinx<\/em>, <em>I\u2019ll Be Gone in the Dark<\/em>), and you could convince yourself that it\u2019s a genre committed to the public good. That would assume, presumably, that you didn\u2019t watch Peacock\u2019s <em>Joe vs. Carole<\/em>, a thoroughly unimaginative and unnecessary attempt to capitalize on the success of <em>Tiger King<\/em>, a unique phenomenon so tenuous that Netflix has released multiple sequels that you probably don\u2019t know (or care) existed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    We\u2019re at a true-crime tipping point, or at least a true-crime teeter-totter, on TV, in which the genre\u2019s volume, its popularity and its potential for awards recognition aren\u2019t always in perfect sync.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    On one hand, look at the limited series\/anthology category at this fall\u2019s Emmys. There\u2019s definitely a definition of true crime that could encompass <em>Dopesick<\/em>, chronicling just one of many deadly crimes perpetuated (if not caused) by Big Pharma, or <em>The Dropout<\/em>, chronicling just one of many (<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/general\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"3\" title=\"General\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">general<\/a>ly not deadly) crimes perpetuated (and possibly caused) by Big Tech \u2014 miniseries that won awards for, respectively, Michael Keaton and Amanda Seyfried. The biggest prizes, though, were won by Mike White\u2019s HBO anthology <em>The White Lotus<\/em>, in which a fictional murder was upstaged by the crime of suitcase-pooping and the only \u201ctruth\u201d was that rich people are gross.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    There was some true-crime representation deeper in the Emmy rosters \u2014 acting nominations for <em>The Staircase<\/em>, an assortment of noms for <em>Under the Banner of Heaven <\/em>\u2014 but it was easier to point to thwarted awards aspirants, from the aforemocked <em>Joe vs. Carole<\/em> and the easy-to-mock Ren\u00e9e Zellweger latex showcase <em>The Thing About Pam<\/em>. The sequel to two Emmy juggernauts, Ryan Murphy\u2019s <em>Impeachment: American Crime Story<\/em>, was mostly a creative arts afterthought.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    But don\u2019t cry for Ryan Murphy! Because if \u201clack of recent Emmy success\u201d is on the one hand, the other hand is the one-two punch of the horribly titled <em>Dahmer \u2014 Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story<\/em> and the generically titled <em>The Watcher<\/em>. In a matter of weeks, Murphy went from being the subject of \u201cWhat has Netflix actually gotten out of that zillion-dollar megadeal?\u201d to \u201c<em>Dahmer<\/em> and <em>The Watcher<\/em> are such blockbusters that they were actually intended as franchises, because that\u2019s what Ryan Murphy does and does well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    <em>Monster<\/em> was a hit, but will that translate into being an awards contender? Evan Peters is an Emmy winner, and nobody will question the intensity he brings to the title role, while Niecy Nash has received consistent raves as the centerpiece of the best <em>Monster<\/em> episode, perhaps the only one that lives up to the producers\u2019 professed desire to do a series about the real people affected by Dahmer\u2019s crimes, not just a gawking, leering piece of exploitation. As for <em>The Watcher<\/em>, it seems like most people reaching the series\u2019 end are looking to forget it, not honor it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    Sigmund Freud never studied the therapeutic value of true crime, but he did write about <em>Wiederholungszwang<\/em>, or the repetition compulsion, in which people have an unconscious tendency to repeat their most damaging or traumatic decisions. This is Murphy\u2019s career-long MO and one of the most common practices on television. (It isn\u2019t just in the true-crime space. How many scripted and docu\u00adseries about the Los Angeles Lakers did America require in 2022?)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    At least with true crime, there\u2019s a sense of success perpetuating repetition and remaking. <em>The Staircase<\/em> was one of the greatest docuseries ever made? Why not try a scripted version! <em>Tiger King<\/em> was all anybody talked about for two weeks when the world was in lockdown? Let\u2019s do a scripted series and sequels two years later! <em>Dahmer<\/em> was a word-of-mouth sensation, joining a vast Netflix roster of serial killer programming. Two weeks later, there was <em>another<\/em> Dahmer docuseries ready to premiere, with no direct connection.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    And the repetition can be platform agnostic. The recent poster boy for unnecessary TV ouroboros is the strange story of Jan Broberg, the subject of Peacock\u2019s overlong, well-acted <em>A Friend of the Family<\/em>, which wasn\u2019t directly based on Skye Borgman\u2019s Netflix documentary <em>Abducted in Plain Sight<\/em>, even if the story is the same and Borgman was involved in both. Naturally, Peacock released a companion doc, <em>A Friend of the Family: True Evil<\/em>. Remember Hulu\u2019s <em>Candy<\/em>, with Jessica Biel as 1980s ax murderer Candy Montgomery? Emmy voters didn\u2019t. But get ready for HBO Max to take a hack at the story with <em>Love and Death<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    This means we\u2019re only a couple of years away from <em>Mind Over Murder: The Series<\/em>, a scripted story about a filmmaker making a documentary about a community making a play about a horrible tragedy that rocked a Nebraska town.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    <em>This story first appeared in a November stand-alone issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine. 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