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I don't believe in the glorification of murder. I do believe in the empowerment of Debrah Charatan. An unnecessary and self-indulgent follow-up to a masterpiece that breathed new life into this genre of death just to bludgeon it to death, chop it into pieces -- killed them all again, of course.

It doesn't have the same shock and awe as the original season, but Part 2's dissection of the People v Robert Durst was about as good of a follow up as you could ask for

El documental, como la figura que retrata, acaba diluyéndose y dando sensación de falso cierre, algo amargo. Sí acierta en mostrar las miserias de todos los implicados. Poderoso caballero es Don Dinero.

I decided to watch this after watching All Good Things. It’s interesting and the ending is chilling but I wasn’t a fan of the structure and how the story was told. I also felt like the filmmakers were trying to convince us that Durst was some mastermind when he was the doofiest pompous moron in the
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Not sure how much we really needed a Part Two, but it was still an interesting watch. For me episode 6 was by far the most fascinating, examining the way money and status influence people to support someone evading justice. That's the biggest story here - fuck capitalism.

The first season of this documentary series was such a cultural phenomenon that it absolutely rocked audiences and was a staple but this second season did not hit the same levels of popularity. The problem with this second season is that the culture moved on from Robert Durst and even though the
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Ending was shocking. Very engaging but not enough to watch part 2.

such a fascinating case.