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Post by pacinoyes on May 24, 2018 13:40:41 GMT
Has anyone watched this yet? I'm going to check it out over the Memorial Weekend but I've always been fascinated by this case and I remember L&O Criminal Intent did a dramatization of it (with Charles Rocket in a performance that eerily matched his true life situation it turned out).
Would be curious to hear how it is if anyone's watched..........
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Post by Mattsby on May 24, 2018 19:42:08 GMT
I watched it last week - liked it but really wasn't for me on par with Making a Murderer or (even better) The Keepers or (best of all) The Jinx. But then again maybe it isn't fair to judge it next to those bigger better-produced series, they had more time to thoroughly and in more depth explore their crimes and themes.
What fascinates me most about Evil Genius is just the constant web of lies coming from these people and it becomes a question of what truth at all is there and if/when any one of these "suspects" will finally tell the truth and whether we can even believe it then after such a heavy bevy of lying. It's that manipulation of the truth that exasperates and fascinates at the same time - which kinda generates the entertainment we get from the true crime form, right....
But this doc while it has that, also feels more straight forward and the filmmaker inserts himself into the show kinda awkwardly I thought.
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Post by cheesecake on May 24, 2018 21:36:04 GMT
I got this confused with Little Evil. lol. I hadn't heard of this so I'm going to check it out ASAP.
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Post by pacinoyes on May 26, 2018 23:10:19 GMT
I'm 2 episodes in and I quite like it so far - one of the things that fascinates me about this case is that in the coverage of it, in the evening news reports, it just raised more questions than it answered. Like you would watch the reporting of what happened and be like "What? Wtf happened again?" - I really love that, the lack of closure - at least at first and how that makes you feel off-balance.
It is very rare to have that and also the fact that the bomb actually went off - you almost never see a "live" death on TV like that.....
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Post by pacinoyes on May 27, 2018 19:19:43 GMT
Ok, I finished this, enjoyed it a lot (but again, like Mattsby said, it's not The Jinx), but oddly I think the film almost comes to a last conclusion that is against what it lays out previously Rothstein it seems to me did get the last laugh on authorities and on Marjorie too - at the very end there is a quote "he went to the grave protecting her" but, he couldn't have known the way the facts in the case would play out after his death. He really signed her death warrant or at least, the rest of her life in prison warrant. I'm not saying she's innocent (at all), but relatively speaking, I see him as far more active even if it wasn't his idea at first, and I don't think he was protecting her at the end at all Still good stuff, reminiscent of the quote that men lead lives of quiet desperation, and in this case, it's the entire town, male and female who harken back to how smart they were, how attractive they were, how they had different possibilities that lead to this .........and the overwhelming banality of evil. |
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Post by cheesecake on Jun 7, 2018 2:37:27 GMT
I thought it was decent. Not sure if it needed to be four episodes, but there's good content here. As others have said, the web of lies surrounding these people is fascinating to watch.
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