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comment by kleinbl00
kleinbl00  ·  3324 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Has anyone else watched the documentary "Making a Murderer" on Netflix?

I watched the first two episodes. It struck me as sort of a JV Jinx. I'm sure there's all sorts of unfairness and skullduggery going on, but when you're doing a long documentary about a miscarriage of justice, you need to fill up with more than "this guy got railroaded." I stopped watching because there wasn't a lot of context, because there wasn't a lot of effort to portray the complex environment that would lead to a conspiracy like the one they're presenting.

Having seen this pop up on Facebook a lot, I think that's the argument a lot of people have against the series without being able to articulate it - you get the sense that things are being simplified and papered over without any attempts to examine the complexities that would lead to the events portrayed.





goo  ·  3324 days ago  ·  link  ·  

_refugee_ just posted this - It articulates what you've said here very well!