TV’s take on a hit podcast is a Dirty shame
by Judy Berman
Dec 10, 2018
2 minutes
TRUE CRIME NEVER GOES OUT OF STYLE, BUT ONLY IN recent years has it become such a highbrow form. By embedding interrogations of identity, psychology and institutional corruption in real mysteries, the makers of Serial, The Jinx and Making a Murderer unleashed a deluge of tawdry tales with redeeming social value—or at least a veneer of it. Yet Dirty John,
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