Zac Efron's casting as Ted Bundy

Oh honey, it's on my list.  Was it good?

Guys, in the documentary did you guys notice Ted smirk when the cop told the press how the victim died? I'll try to find the time stamp.

The documentary on Netflix is one of the very best films ever on a serial killer I'd say - it in some ways approximates The Executioner's Song or (the nearly unbearable to watch) Anguish.

What you have here is astonishing source material - in period audio tape, video tape, news footage intersecting with his failures as a person all painstakingly assembled and presented. In fact, it's his very ability to argue, deflect, persuade, to speak and to rationalize that astounds here. If he wasn't a killer he may have merely been a benign failure - certainly he is not equipped to be an adult, his life is structured as inferior, rationalization, escape, denial. He can not function in a relationship, or in a career, or in a friendship or even, crucially alone - in any way really.

There is a scene in this film that closes episode 3 (the one quetee referenced above) - when the charges are read to him in a holding cell in a sort of mock police dog and pony show and Bundy walks around the room (not handcuffed!, wtf!)and the sheriff reads the charges. Here he is physically intimidated (inferior), he's surrounded by reporters but he cannot speak to them (CAN'T rationalize), he searches the room - avoids eye contact - but cannot escape, and he is confronted with the charges and now can't deny.

I have never seen a scene like this in any film on this subject - and this is real footage. You can't understand some of the crimes - they are so brutal as to be inconceivable - but this scene you can totally understand and in its multiple levels it's crushingly sad and terrifying stuff.