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NETWORK | Netflix
DIRECTED BY | Jean-Xavier de Lestrade
NUMBER OF EPISODES | 13
EPISODE LENGTH | 46-55 mins.
PREMISE | Before Making a Murderer, before Serial… there was The Staircase. The O.G. true-crime documentary first debuted back in 2005, giving us a fascinating fly-on-the-wall perspective on the bizarre murder trial of novelist Michael Peterson, accused of killing his wife Kathleen. (Peterson insisted Kathleen accidentally fell down a flight of stairs to her death.) Oscar-winning documentarian Lestrade follows every twist as Peterson’s trial is hit with a barrage of game-changing bombshells, including accusations of infidelity and bisexuality, the revelation of a previous death with eerie similarities… and an absolutely bananas alternate theory about Kathleen’s death. Lestrade’s attention to detail and revealing interviews are absolute manna to true-crime obsessives, and after hours of courtroom theatrics and meticulous crime-scene analysis, we do get a verdict — but was justice served?
