A Heartbreaking Account of a City in Ruins
The Pitch: The tragic death of Freddie Gray in 2015 while in police custody was a watershed moment for Baltimore; Black communities and activists erupted...
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Jessica Biel Can’t Help Hulu’s Confused True Crime Series
The Pitch: The story of Candy Montgomery is almost too gruesome and eerily-timed to feel true: On Friday, the 13th, one June in 1980, a...
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HBO Max Takes on the Michael Peterson Case
The Pitch: It’s one of the most infamous murder cases in the 21st century: On December 9th, 2001, Kathleen Peterson (Toni Collette) was found dead...
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Andrew Garfield’s True Crime Time
The Pitch: “A grisly murder rocks a sleepy town” is a premise that’s been tossed around plenty of times before — but this one...
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[Editor’s note: The following contains spoilers for Better Call Saul Season 6 Episode 2, “Carrot and Stick.” For our recap of Episode 1, click...
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John Wayne Gacy Tapes Shows the Banality of Evil: Review
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Michael Mann Delivers a Moody, Seedy Crime Story
The Pitch: After a seven-year absence from filmmaking (his last work being 2013’s vastly underseen Blackhat), Michael Mann, king of the male-bonding crime thriller with...
Evan Rachel Wood on Marilyn Manson’s Abuse
Warning: This review contains mentions of emotional and sexual abuse. In 2005, a teenage actress named Evan Rachel Wood met deliberately provocative shock rocker...
John Mulaney Joins SNL’s Five-Timers Club: Watch the Best Sketches
This weekend’s John Mulaney-hosted episode of Saturday Night Live felt more affected than usual by outside circumstances—and not, thankfully, in the sense that it...
A Beloved Comedy Gets a Dark Origin Story
The Pitch: He got in one little fight, his mom got scared… When Kansas City filmmaker Morgan Cooper reimagined The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air as...
Pulpy Airport-Thriller Fun Starring the Beefiest Boy
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HBO Max Sci-Fi Drama Stays Weird
The Pitch: At the end of Raised by Wolves Season 1, when last we saw the fledgling human (and android) remnants on the far-flung...