July 25, 2024

The Docket 07.25.24: Why, Netflix?

the true crime that's worth your time

[listen to today’s episode here, or wherever you get podcasts!]

Two upcoming Netflix properties -- Dirty Pop's three-parter on Lou Pearlman, and the fourth season of the Unsolved Mysteries reboot -- have us wondering why each one exists. SDB has a theory "of ick" about why the culture keeps returning to an already-adjudicated boy-band-adjacent case; we both have a few ideas about what UM could do with a legendary IP to freshen up the narrative. Tab over from Google Trends and have a listen!

SHOW NOTES

• SDB's review of the reboot at Primetimer

• Watch original "Stackisodes" on Amazon Prime

• Dirty Pop: The Boy Band Scam

• SDB's Pairings list for Fallen Idols

• The Boy Band Con: The Lou Pearlman Story, from Lance Bass

• EB's review round-up for Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel

• SDB's review of "I'm Just Here for the Riot"

• And of Quiet on Set