John Serba
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Netflixâs âThe Widower: âTil Death Do Us Partâ ending explained: Is Thomas Randolph, the man with four dead ex-wives, in prison? (opens the original)
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Netflix has become masterful at mashing the OMG button via true crime documentaries that chronicle sensational ripped-from-the-headlines stories. This time, itâs The Widower: âTil Death Do Us Part, about a scarily charismatic man who was married six times and buried four of his wives, three of them under suspicious circumstances. If the disturbing saga of Thomas Randolph sounds familiar, you may have seen NBC producer Dan Slepianâs five-hour 2021 docuseries Dateline: The Widower. (Note, th
Stream It Or Skip It: âThe Widower: âTil Death Do Us Partâ on Netflix, the crazy true crime saga of a man with six ex-wives, four of whom are dead (opens the original)
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Netflix likely has another undeniable canât-look-away true crime documentary in The Widower: âTil Death Do Us Part. This is the story of Thomas Randolph, a man who has six ex-wives, and four are dead, not at all coincidentally. (Mostly coincidentally, anyway.) Three of those deaths were suspicious, so Dateline producer Dan Slepian started reporting on it, and Tiger King and Fyre director Chris Smith put together the story of that investigation. Which, of course, is pretty much as sensational
‘Backrooms,’ ‘The Shining’ and beyond: The creepiest liminal spaces in movies (opens the original)
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Creepy horror hit Backrooms and the internet phenomenon behind it recently have pushed the term “liminal space” into common vernacular, but the use of surreal “in-between” locations in movies is nothing new. YouTuber-turned-director Kane Parsons’ film — now streaming on HBO Max — finds Chiwetel Ejiofor and Renate Reinsve wandering compulsively through seemingly abandoned office spaces that are terrifyingly… beige. These fluorescent-lit rooms, which can be interpreted as symbolic manifestations o
From the original Elizabeth Holmes doc to ‘Mommy Dead and Dearest’: 10 must-watch true crime documentaries streaming on HBO Max (opens the original)
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In the apparently lucrative industry of true crime documentary films, HBO Max skews more “journalistic integrity” than “exploitative sensationalism.” That’s why the genre’s HBO titles are more along the lines of “Sobering and Deeply Troubling Revelations of Our Morally Fraught Society” than “An American Homicidal Trainwreck of Mental Illness,” which you’ll find over at Netflix. Does that mean HBO true crime tends to be more, y’know, boring than at other streamers? Nope. It just means that the ne
Stream It Or Skip It: âUnabomberâ on Netflix, a Ted Kaczynski biopic that attempts to explain the âwhyâ behind his terrorism (opens the original)
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Unabomber (now on Netflix) is a BOATS (Based On A True Story) movie that we all wish was a BOAFS (Based On A False Story) movie. Youâre likely aware that Ted Kaczynski, informally dubbed the Unabomber, chilled Americans to the bone between 1978 and 1995 by mailing out explosive packages that killed three and injured 23 more. This Janus Metz-directed film draws a connection between the young Harvard student who was the subject of experiments by ethically dubious psychological researcher Henry M
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