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CHRISTMAS IS THE perfect time to binge watch box sets and this year, one programme has completely taken over people’s lives: Making A Murderer.
If you’ve been on social media over the past few days, chances are you have seen tweets from people who have rabidly consumed the whole thing.
But what is it? Allow us to explain.
(Be warned: some very mild spoilers ahead.)
As we told you back in November before its release, Making A Murderer is a Netflix documentary series about Steven Avery, a man who served 18 years in prison for rape and other crimes, but was subsequently exonerated and released.
A few years after his release, Avery was taking a $36 million lawsuit against Manitowoc County and the former district attorney and sheriff responsible for wrongfully convicting him when he became the prime suspect in the murder of photographer Teresa Halbach.
In 2007, Avery was found guilty of murdering Halbach and sentenced to life in prison.
The series explores the circumstances in which Avery was convicted and “examines allegations of police and prosecutorial misconduct, evidence tampering and witness coercion”.
Kind of, but don’t accuse it of being a copycat — its directors have been working on the series for 10 years.
Universally positive.
The Atlantic wrote that it had the potential to “eclipse” The Jinx and Serial.
But Making a Murderer, which took 10 years to to make, could very well eclipse those works, for the sheer density of reportage and the scale of the horrifying story it tells—one of rural class politics, bureaucratic opacity, and a seemingly coordinated institutional effort to destroy an innocent man.
Boston Herald, meanwhile, called it “an addictive, scary indictment of small-town policing and a warning to those poor or marginalized by their neighbors.”
But be warned — it is grim.
As Todd VanDerWerdff wrote for Vox:
It’s a sprawling small-town saga that, nonetheless, feels lived-in and intimate. And even as it succumbs to some of true crime’s greatest faults, it’s always less interested in the gruesomeness of the crime than in the impossibility of finding the truth, something that serves it well. This is grim television, but it’s also necessary television.
Let’s just say it’s fairly addictive.
And incredibly frustrating.
The temptation to just Google everything is real.
All ten episodes are up on Netflix now for your binging pleasure.
Godspeed.
Written by Amy O’Connor and posted on DailyEdge.ie
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Filthy animals, the people dumping their rubbish that is.
What’s a picture of the Minister for social protection or self promotion doing in front of this story.
Not proud of the thought, but have we become the litter capital of Europe. Just so bad here in Dublin..
I thought you meant the Dail for a minute?
…and put your garbage in a garbage can, people. I can’t stress that enough.
There is litter strewn from 1 side of this country to another in every town, village, ditch in the place. Nobody takes any pride in our place, and these same people then complain about rodent problems. Cause and effect? It’s up to everyone to take responsibility for their own litter. The sooner we all realise this the better. Its not up to the gubbernment to clean up after everyone.
Now they are multiplying more complex maths is next. It’s only a matter of time before they develop rudimentary computer skills and take over. Run I tell you.
What Mr O’Grady should be shouting about is why these filthy vermin are not prosecuted for dumping waste
We had a neighbour who fired her rubbish into a disused wheelie bin.. when it got too full she just threw it beside the bin.. and along came the rats.. horrible disgusting animals..
So let me get this straight…
- people refuse to pay to get their rubbish collected
- people then complain when rats start multiplying on piles of rubbish…
Then Councillor calls on Council, of which he is a member, to “do something”…
Shotguns, lots of shotguns.
Terriers …
C4
I thought this was just a load of exaggeration until I saw them doing The Siege Of Ennis outside the cathedral
Interesting rats do not sweat. Rats’ front teeth grow 4½ to 5½ inches each year and a pair of brown rats can produce as many as 2,000 descendants in a year if left to breed unchecked. Rats usually just live 2 to 3 years and are quite intelligent. My cat has reached retirement age and has given up hunting so I often see rats and they are definitely getting bigger.
Slightly disappointed that he didn’t mean literally.
“Some people are unwilling or unable to pay”
Hmmm !! Where have we heard that before.
From the poor who keep getting hit with charges by a Taoiseach who thinks the minimum wage for a single person is 35 k. per annum is where !
The 350 Irish HSBC bank account holders?
Dublin?
“estates in Killarney are ‘dancing’ on top of rubbish piles”???? That must be some sight
A kind of…Tops of the Towns….meets Chicago musical number…is what I’m imagining!!
I taught the Labour party conference Killarney ended weeks ago.?
Get down on it !
Get down on it !
How you gonna do it if you really don’t want to dance!!!!
Get your back up off the wall…..
I assume it’s the Kerry Polka they are dancing.
Thought the might be doing a slow set to Ben!
It will all be sorted after the next General Election when Independents like Healy-Rae will hold one of the big parties to ransom and get a load of stuff for Kerry at the expense of every other county.
Of course till then people could just take some personal responsibility and bin their own rubbish and pay for it to be taken away like the rest of us…
Put them in the Gondolas and they’ll be grand !
I’m sure there’s a Healy-Rea there somewhere willing to don his Pied Piper outfit (and a cap of course) and rid them for ever.
Get that rat catcher/killer from that city in Pakistan he’s doing it for feck all!
Are they not practicing the set dancing for the annual paddy’s day drinkfest? Shame on them ……must be foreign rats here to get our dole money and steal our jobs as plague spreaders !
I taught the Labour party conference in Killarney ended weeks ago?
Ha ha
I love Roland rat.
Haeeeeeeeeeeen! !
No complaints from them when they can field one of them at corner forward though, is there. One year out injured & they’re already turning on the coopers in the kingdom, short memories!
The semi-final replay was an absolute disgrace from a refereeing point of view – I lost all respect for Kerry Football that day !
Put the Paddy Cullen episode into a whole new light for me !
Joan burton and labour party must stayed there dancing around only thing there good at
I thought it was an old time waltz…
That rat looks so cute !
Surely that’s a good thing, another attraction to sell to the yanks…..
The first thing that shocked me when I arrived in Ireland was the refuse service. Maybe in Dublin it works better?
In France the garbage is collected every single day, by a public service, and the fee is ridiculously small compared to Ireland. If the garbage haven’t been collected for more than two days it is considered as a serious health and safety issue, and you can sue quickly.
When I saw garbage accumulating sometimes for one week or more without being removed, I just couldn’t believe it….
I immediately thought about the potential heaven for rats :(…. This is just not acceptable for a European country. And yet it’s very expensive for such a unacceptable standard! Something should be done about it.
The way people waste food these days, it is a wonder that rats can still walk?
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