They are true crime stories, and the twist is that the show is narrated from the victim's perspective. It's part re-enactment and part reality where there are interviews with the prosecutors, police, witnesses, family members, etc. along with film of a trial or an actual news broadcast.
Of the three, I really liked two of them and shut off one of them -- just didn't hold my attention, but if you like true crime, I think this is worth checking out.
I don't normally like re-enactments -- I always want to see the real thing, but these use real-looking people for the actors. And there's an odd and compelling bonus at the end. When the credits run, the actors who played the parts in the re-enactments sit there in a chair holding a large black & white portrait of the real person he or she has portrayed. Whoever does the casting has done a marvelous job in that some of the actors look uncannily like the people they play.
Are the victims still alive? I wasn't interested because it seemed like pure speculation.
ReplyDeleteNo, this is true crime and the victims are dead so their words are recreated... so one of them starts, "I never thought I would die this way..." The dead victim narrates parts of the story. I avoided it for the same reason you did -- just resisted the pure hokiness of it, but after Fran brought it up, I gave it a try and thought it was well done.
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