Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile

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🎙️ EPISODE 195: 08.13.19 This movie shouldn't work. It seemingly functions as the tipping point of an odd Ted Bundy / serial killer cultural revival. "The Netflix docuseries? That's the good one right?" people say. "The biopic one with Zac Efron has to be trash, right?" These fictional people also say. And yet it really isn't. It's a wholly competent movie and the former teen idol can actually act. Who knew? If our collective fascination with all this is strange, perhaps that's even stranger? From the always nice to see Haley Joel Osment to the soundtrack which they spared no expense on to a John Malkovich appearance in which he does not for one second attempt the deep southern accent of the character he's playing (a character's whose every line is pretty much ripped verbatim from archival courtroom footage, mind you), this movie is entertaining, if literally nothing else. (To which I will say, literally, nothing else: I won't comment on its exploitative-ness, etc. That's the difference between movies and documentaries!) This is not some great work of art, but if you were on the fence about checking it out among the sea of endless content on Netflix, I can assuredly recommend it.

CHRONOLOGICALLY
⫷ EPISODE 194 - (YOU ARE HERE) - EPISODE 196 ⫸

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