Sarah D. Bunting
Contributor
Enemy of the raisin Sarah D. Bunting co-founded Television Without Pity, and her work has appeared in Glamour and New York, and on MSNBC, NPR's Monkey See blog, MLB.com, and Yahoo!. She's an adjunct instructor at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, and as required by law of creative-writing majors, she lives in Brooklyn. Find her at her true-crime newsletter, Best Evidence, and on TV podcasts Extra Hot Great and Again With This.
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POSTED September 7, 2021
Impeachment: American Crime Story Rises to the Challenge
Much anticipated (and much delayed), the FX series is back doing what it does best.
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POSTED August 18, 2021
Memories of a Murderer: The Nilsen Tapes Skillfully Turns a Killer's Words Against Him
Michael Harte's Netflix doc uses "Des" Nilsen's memoir to give victims a voice.
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POSTED August 17, 2021
True Crime Dinosaurs Cold Case Files and American Justice Are Back, and They Aren't Half Bad
A&E's twin revivals know what they're good at it.
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POSTED August 4, 2021
Cocaine Cowboys: The Kings of Miami Is One Wild Ride
Director Billy Corben's twisty new Netflix docuseries doesn't disappoint.
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POSTED July 14, 2021
Heist on Netflix Is a True-Crime Good Time
The streamer's new docuseries is fun and stylish, but that doesn't mean it's short on substance.
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POSTED July 12, 2021
The Diminishing Returns of HBO's Catch & Kill: The Podcast Tapes
Ronan Farrow's masterwork isn't quite as riveting the third time around.
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POSTED June 30, 2021
Netflix's Sophie: A Murder In West Cork and ‘The OJ Effect’
An obnoxious prime suspect takes center stage in Big Red's latest true-crime docuseries.
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POSTED June 24, 2021
Epstein's Shadow Skillfully Navigates the Void at Its Center
Peacock's new Ghislaine Maxwell docuseries isn't afraid to address what it doesn't know.
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POSTED June 21, 2021
HBO's I'll Be Gone In The Dark Follow-Up Special Disappoints
This week's new "bonus" episode only hints at what could have been.
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POSTED May 26, 2021
Netflix's Nail Bomber: Manhunt May Leave You Wanting More (That's Not a Bad Thing)
The streamer's latest true crime doc gives voice to the victims of London's 1999 nail bombings and the race to find the perpetrator.
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POSTED May 12, 2021
Epix Docuseries Fall River Looks at the Scourge of ‘Satanic Panic’
Turns out not every murder in the 80s and 90s had cult links.
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POSTED May 5, 2021
Sons Of Sam Contemplates Conspiracies, and Why We're Drawn to Them
Netflix's latest is on David Berkowitz, crackpot theories, and how true-crime stories become obsessions.
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POSTED April 20, 2021
Hulu's Sasquatch Investigates a Triple Murder Attributed to the Beast
The new Duplass Brothers docuseries is as much about the unsolved case as it is the stories we tell ourselves.
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POSTED April 14, 2021
Why Did You Kill Me? Is More Than Just a Catfish Story
Netflix's doc on one family's social-media vengeance keeps it simple, to great effect.
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POSTED April 6, 2021
This Is a Robbery Is a True Crime Caper Worth Watching
The world's greatest art heist gets a four-part Netflix docuseries to match.