Dramas based on true crime stories are fraught with contradictions–are these criminals or characters, stories or confessions, entertainment or exploitation?
The docuseries avoids possible pitfalls of covering America’s best known serial killer by deconstructing the culture, politics, and female “groupies” that cultivated the Bundy Effect™.
Series like Making a Murderer and Serial place crime in the eye of Millennial culture, transforming true crime into a participatory study of society, our psyches, our fallibility, and our strength.
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