How do you feel about true crime documentary television series? Me personally, I feel a touch icky about it; commodifying very real pain and traumas for the almighty content farm strikes me as exploitative and casually triggering, and maybe even appealing to our worst impulses as audience members. However, I cannot deny the efficacy of many of these programs — the end of The Jinx remains an all-time TV watching memory of mine — and cannot deny the expediency in results they can have in these real life pain and traumas. It's from this murky, unsure pool of intellectual musings …
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