HBO Max docuseries TheStaircase raises interesting questions about truth and purpose in true crime media.
More than most other true-crime series, The Staircase needed to do something special to distinguish itself. Even for a genre whose devotees will happily listen to three different podcasts about a single case, the Michael Peterson saga is well-trodden ground; in fact, the miniseries is based on Jean-Xavier de Lestrade’s award-winning docuseries of the same name. On top of that, this year has seen an overwhelming glut of true-crime shows, with a new buzzy miniseries seemingly debuting every week.
The filmmakers behind the original docuseries spoke out against The Staircase, which they claimed misrepresented the facts to make them look biased in favor of Peterson. Among other things, they said that they never asked Peterson to rephrase his statements during filming, and that Sophie Brunet, the editor who eventually had an affair with Peterson, only began meeting him after she left the documentary, not during filming as the show implies.
Thorny ethical questions have surrounded true crime since the days of In Cold Blood, and the genre’s recent boom has only made them more pressing.
What makes The Staircase’s depiction of the filmmakers so interesting is that it takes these questions, usually applied to the victims and perpetrators of the crime in question, and applies them to the creators of the original docuseries — people who, unlike the subjects of most true-crime stories, are both alive and out of prison, and as such can speak freely against it.
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