John Phipps

No genre of storytelling is more formulaic or more exhausted than true crime

Old material is pointlessly remade and re-exhumed over and over

Grieving husband or deceitful murderer?: Michael Peterson. Credit: Netflix 
issue 25 June 2022

Nothing new under the sun. Or at least it feels that way these days, doesn’t it? The movies are TV shows are comic books are children’s toys. The TV series are podcasts are non-fiction books are magazine articles. The radio shows are real-life stories are Twitter threads are TV series.

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