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  1. Making a Murderer 2015

    Documentary

    Filmed over 10 years, this real-life thriller follows a DNA exoneree who, while exposing police corruption, becomes a suspect in a grisly new crime.

    The sides of Making a Murderer

    • A man freed by DNA after 18 years in prison
    • A new murder charge two years later
    • A nephew's confession and the trials that follow

    Good for you if

    • you want to weigh the evidence in the Steven Avery case yourself.
    • you like seeing how a county police force and a court work up close.
    • you like a case followed over ten years, hearing by hearing.

    Bad for you if

    • a real young woman's murder and a teenager's interrogation are too much for you.
    • you need some hope, and a family's ten-year fight through prison visits and appeals wears you down.

    About: justice · doubt · family

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  2. Susan Morrow receives a book manuscript from her ex-husband – a man she left 20 years earlier – asking for her opinion of his writing. As she reads, she is drawn into the fictional life of Tony Hastings, a mathematics professor whose family vacation turns violent.

    The sides of Nocturnal Animals

    • A gallery owner reading her ex-husband's novel
    • A story inside the story
    • A night on a Texas highway

    Good for you if

    • you like cold, elegant images.
    • you like a roadside scene that's hard to breathe through.
    • you like a story within a story, where the novel Susan reads keeps echoing her own past.

    Bad for you if

    • brutal scenes in the novel Susan reads are too much for you.
    • cruelty told without comfort is too heavy for you.

    About: revenge · regret · art

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  3. Defending Jacob 2020

    Series

    A family's lives are irreparably disrupted when the 14-year-old son is accused of murdering a fellow classmate.

    The sides of Defending Jacob

    • A father defending his 14-year-old son
    • A classmate stabbed in a park
    • A prosecutor's office turning on one of its own

    Good for you if

    • you like watching an ordinary family crack under suspicion.
    • you want to know who killed the boy in the park.
    • you like a case that tightens with every hearing.

    Bad for you if

    • you need to know for certain whether Jacob did it.
    • you can't sit with a story built around a dead child.

    About: parenthood · doubt · guilt

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  4. In the criminal justice system, sexually-based offenses are considered especially heinous. In New York City, the dedicated detectives who investigate these vicious felonies are members of an elite squad known as the Special Victims Unit. These are their stories.

    The sides of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

    • A New York squad for sex crimes
    • Detective Olivia Benson
    • Cases that end in court

    Good for you if

    • you like a case a week, from the interrogation room to the courtroom.
    • you like Mariska Hargitay as Olivia Benson, there for every victim.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't take on twenty-eight seasons.
    • you can't watch stories of sexual assault and abuse, even told with care.

    About: justice · victims · trauma

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  5. Mare of Easttown 2021

    Series

    A detective in a small Pennsylvania town investigates a local murder while trying to keep her life from falling apart.

    The sides of Mare of Easttown

    • A detective in a small Pennsylvania town
    • A teenage mother found dead
    • A grandmother raising her late son's child

    Good for you if

    • you like a small-town murder where every neighbour could be hiding something.
    • you like Kate Winslet as a tired, stubborn local cop.
    • you like a crime story that cares as much about Mare's family as the case.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't take grief, addiction and a son's suicide on screen.
    • you need chases and shootouts more than slow detective work.

    About: grief · small towns · motherhood · guilt

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  6. The Act 2019

    Series

    Gypsy Blanchard struggles to deal with the toxic relationship with her overprotective mother, but her attempts to free herself lead to murder.

    The sides of The Act

    • The true story of Gypsy Rose Blanchard
    • A mother who kept her daughter ill
    • A murder in Missouri

    Good for you if

    • you want to understand a true crime from inside the house.
    • you like Joey King and Patricia Arquette in a mother-daughter story.
    • you like dread that builds toward something you know will happen.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't stand child abuse and medical cruelty on screen.
    • you need some hope, and Gypsy's life is a cage that keeps closing in.

    About: control · abuse · freedom · motherhood

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  7. Mystic River 2003

    Film

    The lives of three men who were childhood friends are shattered when one of them suffers a family tragedy.

    The sides of Mystic River

    • Three childhood friends in Boston
    • A murdered daughter
    • A past that never healed

    Good for you if

    • you like raw, powerful acting.
    • you like a tragedy with no clean ending.
    • you like a murder investigation in a tight neighbourhood.

    Bad for you if

    • child abuse and a parent's grief are too heavy for you.
    • you need momentum. Eastwood lets the grief and the silences run long.

    About: trauma · guilt · loyalty

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  8. MINDHUNTER 2017

    Series

    In the late 1970s, two FBI agents start interviewing imprisoned serial killers to understand how they think, and use what they learn on open cases.

    The sides of MINDHUNTER

    • Interviews with real killers
    • The birth of criminal profiling
    • What the work does to the people doing it

    Good for you if

    • you like tension that comes from people talking across a table.
    • you like stories built on real cases and real killers.
    • you like a slow, quiet build more than action.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't stand a story left unfinished, and the series stopped after two seasons with the BTK thread still open.
    • you don't want to hear crimes against women and children described in detail.

    About: evil · method · the 1970s · obsession

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  9. A sexy, suspense-driven legal thriller about a group of ambitious law students and their brilliant, mysterious criminal defense professor. They become entangled in a murder plot and will shake the entire university and change the course of their lives.

    The sides of How to Get Away with Murder

    • A law professor who teaches how to win at any cost
    • Five students caught in a murder
    • A story told in flash-forwards

    Good for you if

    • you like a flash-forward that changes what you thought you knew.
    • you like Viola Davis as Annalise Keating.
    • you like students hiding a body and lying to everyone.

    Bad for you if

    • you need law school and the courts to look like the real thing.
    • six seasons is too much for you.

    About: guilt · ambition · secrets

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  10. Your Honor 2020

    Series

    New Orleans judge Michael Desiato is forced to confront his own deepest convictions when his son is involved in a hit and run that embroils an organized crime family.

    The sides of Your Honor

    • A judge whose son kills a boy in a hit and run
    • A New Orleans crime family looking for a name
    • A father burning everything to protect his son

    Good for you if

    • you like watching one lie force the next one.
    • you want Bryan Cranston as a decent man coming apart slowly.
    • you like following a judge who breaks every rule he enforces.

    Bad for you if

    • you need some hope. Here every choice makes things worse.
    • you can't watch a story that opens on a dead teenager.

    About: guilt · fatherhood · justice

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  11. Hannibal 2013

    Series

    Both a gift and a curse, Graham has the extraordinary ability to think like his prey—he sees what they see, feels what they feel. But while Graham is pursuing an especially troubling, cannibalistic murderer, Special Agent Jack Crawford teams him with a highly respected psychiatrist – a man with a taste for the criminal minded – Dr. Hannibal Lecter.

    The sides of Hannibal

    • An FBI profiler who thinks like killers
    • A psychiatrist who cooks his victims
    • Murder scenes staged like works of art

    Good for you if

    • you like crime scenes composed like paintings and dinners shot like still lifes.
    • you can't take your eyes off Mads Mikkelsen as Hannibal Lecter.
    • you like watching Will Graham get closer to the man sitting across from him.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't stand corpses turned into displays.
    • you want a crime show that plays like real police work.

    About: manipulation · obsession · friendship · madness

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  12. The Wire 2002

    Series

    Told from the points of view of both the Baltimore homicide and narcotics detectives and their targets, the series captures a universe in which the national war on drugs has become a permanent, self-sustaining bureaucracy, and distinctions between good and evil are routinely obliterated.

    The sides of The Wire

    • Baltimore cops wiretapping a drug crew
    • The docks, the schools, City Hall and the newspaper
    • Dealers and detectives seen from both sides

    Good for you if

    • you like seeing how police, politics and schools keep a city stuck.
    • you like a case built patiently over a whole season.
    • you want people like Omar, Stringer Bell and McNulty to stay with you.

    Bad for you if

    • you lose track with dozens of characters on both sides.
    • you need some hope. Baltimore rarely changes here.

    About: institutions · the drug war · loyalty

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  13. After a tragic ending to her short-lived super hero stint, Jessica Jones is rebuilding her personal life and career as a detective who gets pulled into cases involving people with extraordinary abilities in New York City.

    The sides of Marvel's Jessica Jones

    • A super-strong private eye who drinks too much
    • A man who controls minds with his voice
    • Cases in Hell's Kitchen

    Good for you if

    • you like a hero who is rude, broken and drinks alone.
    • you want David Tennant as Kilgrave, a villain you can't look away from.
    • you like a private detective's noir cases.

    Bad for you if

    • a story about abuse, control and trauma is too much for you.
    • you need a superhero show that moves fast.

    About: trauma · control · survival

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  14. Breaking Bad 2008

    Series

    A high school chemistry teacher diagnosed with lung cancer starts making meth with a former student to pay for his family's future.

    The sides of Breaking Bad

    • An ordinary man's slow corruption
    • Crime as a business
    • One bad choice that spirals
    • Desert, tension, long silences

    Good for you if

    • you like rooting for someone you know you shouldn't.
    • you like tension that builds for a whole episode before it breaks.
    • you watch for how people change more than for what happens.

    Bad for you if

    • graphic violence ruins a show for you. Some scenes are hard to unsee.
    • TV is how you unwind. This one keeps you tense.
    • five seasons is more than you want to start.

    About: pride · family · power · consequences

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  15. Disgraced journalist Mikael Blomkvist investigates the disappearance of a weary patriarch's niece from 40 years ago. He is aided by the pierced, tattooed, punk computer hacker named Lisbeth Salander. As they work together in the investigation, Blomkvist and Salander uncover immense corruption beyond anything they have ever imagined.

    The sides of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

    • A journalist and a hacker
    • A girl missing for forty years
    • A cold Swedish island

    Good for you if

    • you like a dark, intricate investigation.
    • you like dread in cold, clean images.
    • you like an unforgettable, fierce heroine.

    Bad for you if

    • rape and torture scenes are too much for you.
    • you'd rather not watch frank sex scenes, or not with company.
    • over two and a half hours is too long for you.

    About: violence against women · truth · revenge

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  16. The Outsider 2020

    Series

    When an insidious supernatural force edges its way into a seemingly straightforward investigation into the gruesome murder of a young boy, it leads a seasoned cop and an unorthodox investigator to question everything they believe in.

    The sides of The Outsider

    • A boy's murder in a Georgia town
    • A suspect seen in two places at once
    • An investigator who sees what others miss

    Good for you if

    • you like dread that builds in quiet rooms and dark caves.
    • you like a case with proof that a man was in two places at once.
    • you like a patient story that takes its time with grief.

    Bad for you if

    • the murder of a child and a grieving family are too much for you.
    • you need a crime explained without anything supernatural.

    About: grief · belief · evil

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  17. Prisoners 2013

    Film

    When his young daughter and her friend disappear on Thanksgiving, a father takes the law into his own hands while a detective works the case.

    The sides of Prisoners

    • A detective who won't let go
    • How far a father will go
    • A case built like a maze
    • Rain, cold, and grey light

    Good for you if

    • you like being tense for two and a half hours straight.
    • you like collecting clues and trying to get ahead of the detective.
    • you like watching an actor go somewhere raw. Hugh Jackman does.

    Bad for you if

    • a child in danger is too much for you.
    • two and a half hours is too long for your evening.

    About: faith · revenge · guilt · fatherhood

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  18. In the continuing saga of the Corleone crime family, a young Vito Corleone grows up in Sicily and in 1910s New York. In the 1950s, Michael Corleone attempts to expand the family business into Las Vegas, Hollywood and Cuba.

    The sides of The Godfather Part II

    • A son ruling the family business
    • A young father building it in old New York
    • A brother's betrayal

    Good for you if

    • you like a long, patient tragedy.
    • you like two great performances in two eras.
    • you like a dark family saga that offers no comfort.

    Bad for you if

    • over three hours is too long for one evening.

    About: family · power · loneliness

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  19. Aspiring Florida defense lawyer Kevin Lomax accepts a job at a New York law firm. With the stakes getting higher every case, Kevin quickly learns that his boss has something far more evil planned.

    The sides of The Devil's Advocate

    • A young defense lawyer who never loses
    • A Manhattan law firm with the devil at the top
    • A wife unravelling in a new apartment

    Good for you if

    • you watch for Al Pacino as a firm boss enjoying every minute.
    • you like a man working out too late what he agreed to.
    • you like Manhattan money, a glass tower and the price of getting in.

    Bad for you if

    • you'd rather skip the sex scenes and the nudity.
    • two and a half hours in one sitting is too much for you.

    About: ambition · vanity · temptation

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  20. Mr. Robot 2015

    Series

    A young programmer, Elliot, suffers from a debilitating anti-social disorder and decides that he can only connect to people by hacking them. He wields his skills as a weapon to protect the people that he cares about. Elliot finds himself in the intersection between a cybersecurity firm he works for and the underworld organizations that are recruiting him to bring down corporate America.

    The sides of Mr. Robot

    • A lonely hacker at a security firm
    • A group of hackers named fsociety
    • A plan to erase all debt

    Good for you if

    • you like piecing together a hacking plot against the giant E Corp.
    • you like the floor dropping out from under Elliot.
    • you like living inside one troubled man's head.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't stand drug use, trauma and depression on screen.
    • you need momentum, and some episodes sit inside Elliot's silence.

    About: loneliness · reality · revolution · trauma

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