America is in the throes of true-crime addiction, and Netflix deserves a good share of the credit (or blame). Starting with Making a Murderer, the streamer has made documentaries chronicling murders, vanishings and other mysterious happenings one of its main tentpoles, and in turn has helped move true crime from pop culture’s trashy margins to the centre of the entertainment conversation.
Is that a good thing – that we’ve turned sordid, often gruesome tragedies into gristle for the content machine? Really, that’s a discussion for another time. Because if you’re already hooked, all you really want to know is what you should watch next. Netflix is overflowing with true-crime docs, but in the rush to capitalise on the craze, not all of those on offer are worth even the most obsessed fan’s time. The following, however, all deserve a binge.
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