Reality TV edges into true crime (unintentionally)
We’ve talked before about reality TV stars who end up accused or convicted of true crimes, but we haven’t talked about scandals or crimes within those shows’...
Missing: The Lucie Blackman Case · My Daughter's Killer
Netflix docs, camp-Fyre tales, and Basquiat fakes
Peter Berg · Rudy Giuliani · FedEx
What are you watching this weekend?
The Docket 08.17.23 Crowned Heads
Listen to us Google stuff!
Henrietta Lacks · Unique Harris · Deadpool
Plus: Should you watch Depp v. Heard?
And just like that...there was Georgia.
You’d think (hope?) that after all my years covering crime, including on-the-ground reporting of San Francisco’s infamous Shrimp Boy case, I’d stop muttering...
The Sacklers · The Murdaughs · The Zodiac
Kobek, Kitsch, and some literal wine-'n'-crime
Swedish Scarf · Telemarketers · Mushrooms
Do the SF 49ers have a crime curse?
The Docket 08.10.23 Manson: The "Major-est" Case
Why it still endures; what that should look like going forward
The Retrievals
The crimeIn 2020, a nurse at the Yale University fertility treatment clinic was arrested when it was discovered she had been swapping the content of fentanyl...
What about cameras in the courtroom?
“The broadcast of the OJ Simpson murder trial was a formative moment for me,” I heard myself say the other day. Setting aside what a choad I sound like when...
Putting 4 Recent Netflix Docuseries In The Line-Up
Plus detectives' tunnel vision, Gilgo Beach commentary, and more
Andrew Tate · Car Break-Ins · Poltergeist Girl
Hulu appears very eager for me to watch Demons & Saviors this weekend. What a terrible title, right? You expect a badly dyed Tom Hanks in the Vatican with a...
The Docket 08.03.23 Murphy x Menendez
Is the Menendez case a camp sinkhole for scripted projects; whither the Ryan Murphy acting corps; which Murphy series is the “bridge line”; when...
The Sixth Commandment · The Fugitive
Plus Lizzo, Vallow, Unruh, and a (justly overlooked) lamster competition
When it's best to binge (and when it's not)
I’ve always been curious about the decision to release a property all at once, versus portioning it out week by week. Sometimes, it’s seemed like a...
Ashley Judd · Brooklyn Teens · YouTube Divers
Get out from under that heat dome with the July budget sweep
July 2023 Bonus Review: Kent State
Sometimes, knowledge IS power
Sinéad O'Connor · OMitB · NYPD
Plus: A small town bad cop longread
The Docket 07.27.23 Ask Us Anything!
You had questions; we (sometimes) had answers!