The Staircase | when documentarians become characters

Illiterate

The start of the 21st century true-crime series extravaganza has an update! Why is this dramatization different, and what’s the reason for adapting a documentary again? And how come only certain court cases can be filmed? Let’s learn!

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Extras:

• trailer, The Staircase (2022)
• interview, og director Jean-Xavier de Lestrade
• interview, show creators Antonio Campos & Maggie Cohn
• trailer, Trial and Error parody, 2017
• book, Behind the Staircase - Michael Peterson
• audio, Supreme Court oral arguments
• interview, Michael Peterson and Sophie Brunet in 2019

Other similar episodes to check out…Only Murders in the Building, You, Nancy Drew, Death on the Nile, I’ll Be Gone in the Dark, Pam and Tommy, Impeachment: American Crime Story, The Woman in the Window, Bad Education, Tread