Loving yet full of palpable fury, HBO’s docuseries will make you deeply sad, then even sadder that more true-crime stories aren’t told this way.
is gentle and careful and immensely loving, even when it’s also full of palpable fury — everything true crime so rarely understands how to be.looks like dozens of other true-crime series. All the familiar visual language is in place: footage of recreated scenes, lots of talking heads, timelines that flash across the screen, piles of images of documents and police evidence.
The series’s four episodes, which roll out Sunday nights on HBO and Max beginning July 9, spend significant time with victims’ families, friends, and lovers, and their accounts become multifaceted portraits of who these men were. Because they were gay men, and because many of them were closeted in at least some areas of their lives, the varied, overlapping perspectives help resist any simplistic reading of who they were and how they’re remembered.
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