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Poor half-wit that I have become, addled by designer drugs, libations from the very top shelf and meaningless affairs with cold, angry women, I was expecting this documentary to be about Scott Peterson, the man who murdered his pregnant wife in 2002 and dumped her body into the San Francisco Bay.
Turns out it is instead about Michael Peterson, American author who claimed to have discovered his wife's body at the bottom of a staircase in a pool of blood in their home in Durham North Carolina in 2001. They're both named Peterson; a pardonable mistake, certainly, in light of the grave missteps on display.
Despite my clueless imbecility when it comes to mayhem in the news, I discovered The Staircase to be an utterly gripping, 2-disc documentary from Academy Award-winning French director Jean-Xavier de Lestrade, and was so overcome with an obscene fascination that I was up practically half the night, watching the entire series in one sitting.
score 10/10
monsieurchariot 16 October 2017
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