The Jinx Part Two reaches its conclusion. Did you stick with it?

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When we discussed The Jinx Part Two when HBO and Max released it in April, Sarah had an interesting theory: perhaps the series wasn’t made for the usual reasons of truth to power, investigation, or revelation. Instead, she posited, filmmaker Andrew Jarecki returned to his most famous well not to provide shocking new details or unearth even more bizarre crimes, but to perform an exorcism of sorts. Since the first iteration of The Jinx in 2015, the filmmaker behind Capturing The Friedmans has…not done much. Perhaps the landmark figure of “Baaahb” was holding him back. Perhaps making this show would free him.

There’s a moment in the show’s final two episodes (which were released for critics last week, after being held back from the original round of reviews) where we see a flicker of that. Jarecki is interviewing Lisa DePaulo, a journo who covered (among other illustrious cases) the wrongful death suit filed against Durst by the family of Kathleen McCormack, his first wife. His phone rings, and it’s the DA from Durst’s homicide trial. He makes an odd noise, hangs up, and says “Robert Durst is deceased.” You feel the air leave the room for a second. And then, you start to wonder if even that was a work.