Eric Adams · Mormons · A Groundhog Day BET-CRP
Plus the commercialization of documentaries
Black History Month: Recs and reqs
Black History Month gets underway today, and you know what that means. Thought-provoking discussion and reading/viewing, yes…but also cringey leveraging of...
Jerks · Backstories · Sports
It's the January budget doc sweep post
48 Hours · Rikers · The '70s
Plus a missing "trustafarian" and The Big Lie
January 2023 Bonus Review: You're Wrong About Henry Lee Lucas
Sarah Marshall and Rachel Monroe on how a garden-variety creep became an archetype
Justin Roiland · Elizabeth Holmes · Irish Dumping
Plus weekend (fiction?) watching
George Santos is the Zodiac*
Plus Kennedy, Koresh, and the Oscars
The Doodler · Anna Delvey · Rust Reactions
Plus: "Cold Justice" warms back up
When genres collide: What reality-show suspects deserve the true-crime treatment?
“Reality show or true crime series?” asked NPR this week. The subject in question was the he Real Housewives franchise, which has manufactured a multitude of...
Web Of Death · Sam Sheppard Jr. · The Murdaughs
Plus: you can't spell "Elizabeth Holmes" without "lam" (...allegedly)
Brett Kavanaugh · Meryl Streep · Mario Batali
Is that our most random subject line yet? y/n?
Slender Man · Black Dahlia · Accidental Presidents
Two hits and a whiff
True crime matchmaking: marry a great fiction writer with a great true crime case
One of my favorite lines in Glass Onion involves the intersection of fiction and crime. A Musk-like billionaire (Ed Norton) tells detective Benoit Blanc...
New Podcasts · Evan Peters · Kit Kats
Four new shows to look forward to in 2023
Jailhouse Lawyers · Dead Presidents · Con(gres)s(men)
Plus Episcopaliananigans and college-town dispatches
Sarah Lawrence · Houston · Second Seasons
Plus: should "conventionally attractive men" play killers?
What unbelievably dumb crimes should become prestige properties?
Huge thanks to Calcs at Cup Of Coffee for tipping me to a real Darwin Award of a crime story out of Milwaukee. The complaint says the man attended a Sept. 8...
Amber Alerts · Idaho Misinfo · WWE
Plus: A true crime podcaster who is ducking the spotlight
Norman Mailer · The Boston Strangler
And soccer and sedition
Andrew Tate · Rick Singer · Capitol cover-up
Plus: Is the new Madoff docuseries timely or past the sell-by date?