TV TATTLE
How Netflix created its golden age of true-crime documentary series
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Docuseries from Making a Murderer to Evil Genius to Wild Wild Country owe a debt to The Staircase, which aired on Sundance Channel in 2005. Jean Xavier de Lestrade's docuseries on Michael Peterson was the "the Rosetta stone of modern multi-part crime explorations." ALSO: Nxivm and Wild Wild Country have boosted interested in cult programming.
TOPICS: Netflix, Evil Genius: The True Story of America’s Most Diabolical Bank Heist, Making a Murderer, The Staircase (2004), Wild Wild Country, Documentaries, NXIVM
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