Making a Murderer

[Koroviev]

If you're looking for something new to watch on Netflix I highly recommend the documentary series Making a Murderer. It's about a guy in Wisconsin who was put in prison for rape in the 1980's. 18 years later DNA evidence is found that he was not guilty as he stated the entire time. Fantastic series highlighting some of the major pitfalls of the US "justice" system. It's one of those documentaries that makes you hope that it's biased and over dramatized because if it's not then we live in a pretty terrifying reality.

 

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5189670/

[Spenc]

also the Avery family is an interesting case study.  the way Steven chooses his relationships with women is alarming to say the least

[dpte]

Just started watching it. It's highly addictive, just started binge watching. Really scary just how corrupt the "justice" system is.

[Spenc]

head on over to reddit at /r/makingamurderer for some really interesting people-watching

 

1.  you've got the fan fiction conspiracy theories

 

2.  you've got people expressing anger and hatred towards 'characters'.  e.g. most of all Ken Kratz, the prosecutor, Lem Kaschinsky, the public defender and his investigative assistant.  all 3 of these people acted in unethical ways.  then you've got the people hating on the victim's brother who was the family's spokesman in front of the media and his friend/victim's ex boyfriend.  people are writing theories suggesting that these two men are the real murderers and framed Avery!  it's fucking crazy!

 

3.  fast-and-loose facts, heavy biases, etc.

 

 

 

in one thread, someone was saying they were feeling guilty that they were hating the victim's brother for being a pawn of the prosecution team basically.  i wrote a reply talking about how he should not hate the brother and that it is irrational to do so.  and that furthermore there is probably something personal to his own life that would evoke such strong emotion as hate toward a fairly neutral character in the saga.  i was downvoted for suggesting that people should be provoked toward hatred and that if they do a little introspection and rewatch the series they will probably have much different feelings toward the 'characters' the second time around.  so many people are determined to unload a lot of burdensome emotions on these dramas that are playing out on TV instead of solving them personally

[Koroviev]

head on over to reddit at /r/makingamurderer for some really interesting people-watching

 

1.  you've got the fan fiction conspiracy theories

 

2.  you've got people expressing anger and hatred towards 'characters'.  e.g. most of all Ken Kratz, the prosecutor, Lem Kaschinsky, the public defender and his investigative assistant.  all 3 of these people acted in unethical ways.  then you've got the people hating on the victim's brother who was the family's spokesman in front of the media and his friend/victim's ex boyfriend.  people are writing theories suggesting that these two men are the real murderers and framed Avery!  it's fucking crazy!

 

3.  fast-and-loose facts, heavy biases, etc.

 

 

 

in one thread, someone was saying they were feeling guilty that they were hating the victim's brother for being a pawn of the prosecution team basically.  i wrote a reply talking about how he should not hate the brother and that it is irrational to do so.  and that furthermore there is probably something personal to his own life that would evoke such strong emotion as hate toward a fairly neutral character in the saga.  i was downvoted for suggesting that people should be provoked toward hatred and that if they do a little introspection and rewatch the series they will probably have much different feelings toward the 'characters' the second time around.  so many people are determined to unload a lot of burdensome emotions on these dramas that are playing out on TV instead of solving them personally

 

Yeah that's a really interesting point. The documentarians specifically said they were not creating the series to attempt to discover who was guilty and who was innocent or to place blame, but in stead of having a real discussion about the flaws in the infallible American justice system people are too busy picking sides and getting swept away in the minutia exactly the opposite of the intended goal.

I also found the parallels between the Avery case and the situation in Oregon to be pretty fascinating. Government with the best of intentions over stepping their bounds and it's the citizens who suffer. Most people don't believe it can happen until it happens to them.