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Making a Murderer (TV Series)

Making a Murderer

2015

Moira Demos, Laura Ricciardi

Documentary, Self: Steven Avery

7.9

7,513

TV Series. Documentary TV Series (2015-2018). 2 Seasons. 20 Episodes. This documentary series focuses on the case of Steven Avery, a man convicted of sexual assault, before being exonerated by DNA evidence 18 years later. Two years later, he is convicted in the disappearance and murder of another woman.

	Media	Author	Review
		Daniel D'Addario Variety	"[2nd Season Review]: As entertainment, 'Murderer' remains expertly made, its seductive slow pace gripping viewers by the neck (...) [It] ends up lacking much of a point at all"
		Daniel Fienberg The Hollywood Reporter	"[2nd Season Review]: I admire that it's more driven by intellect than passion, while lamenting its lack of clear and smooth construction."
		Jesse Schedeen IGN	"[2nd Season Review]: Season 2 lacks the novelty that fueled Season 1's popularity (...) There's simply not enough meaningful content to justify ten hours of new content."
		Ben Travers IndieWire	"[2nd Season Review]: As entertainment, 'Part 2' is a slog. As an argument for its subjects’ innocence, it pushes the same buttons with the same evidence (and lack thereof) as before."
		Jen Chaney Vulture	"[2nd Season Review]: It is a less shocking, more plodding, in-depth procedural (...) There is something fascinating about watching Zellner do her meticulous detective work"
		Brian Lowry Variety	"'Riveting' is an overused, even lazy, term in criticism, but it’s hard to think of one that better applies to 'Making a Murderer', Netflix’s stunning 10-part documentary."
		Daniel Fienberg The Hollywood Reporter	"'Making a Murderer' is Netflix's very worthy entry into what is an increasingly burgeoning genre."
		Mike Hale The New York Times	"Immersive, compulsive and unpredictable, but also exhausting and sometimes mundane and repetitive. For the most part, the series’s novelistic qualities carry the day."
		Melissa Maerz Entertainment Weekly	"Judging by the first four episodes (...) it’s not only a gripping true-crime story, it’s also the most moral one I’ve seen in a long time."
		Margaret Lyons Vulture	"It's as engrossing as they come, impactful and devastating, and it left me with a hollowed-out despondence generally treatable only with alcohol and ranting."

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