Yet another true crime docuseries

Surprised to see not even one person has posted about this one. A friend of mine recommended it to me and I finished it last night.

I thought it was pretty good and it certainly seems to be a story worth telling, but its slow pace made it difficult for me to stay fully engaged.

I can also see that the filmmakers are on board with the recent trend in documentary filmmaking of trying to be make everything look SO stylish and cinematic, and this is something I am pretty ambivalent about. In some ways I feel like the closer toward narrative films that documentaries become, the less like actual reality they feel, which kind of defeats the purpose.

One thing it drives home is a lesson that I already knew, and that's that the justice system is terrifying. I never, ever want to get wrapped up in that shit. Neither cops, nor judges, nor juries can really be trusted to get it right. Personally, I would much rather die than go to prison.

I've noticed that there's not much buzz surrounding this particular series. Certainly there was more talk surrounding Making a Murderer and The Jinx, as well as the first season of the Serial podcast, than I have seen about The Innocent Man. Are people just getting true crime'd out? Have we reached the age where these kinds of docuseries are simply becoming routine?

In any case, if this guy really is innocent then hopefully he finds his way out of there.