Murdaugh Murders: Deadly Dynasty

Interesting and worthwhile documentary. You can tell which reviewers didn't watch because they're complaining about how to pronounce "Alex." He clearly states he goes by "Alec." Maybe pay attention to what you're reviewing. Just a thought.

It'll be interesting to see where this case goes. I'm assuming there will be further episodes as events play out. But even if this is all we get, the news has been all over this story. I'm sure it will only get more interesting.

It will also be interesting to see what happens to Mallory's friends. It's heartbreaking to watch as they recount their stories, but you can't help but admire them for their courage. Their parents can be proud of them.

The negative: I knew nothing of these murders and would like to know how the story ends. (Do documentaries have season two's?)

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The positive: Producers did a good job of interviews with interesting townspeople as well as selecting pertinent research information to tuck in between.

And the eyewitnesses sold it for me. They are the ones who saw the family collapsing and who know the local culture and tone from years past.

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Not sure why people would give this only one star.

It's a true crime doc, well taped and edited. Nothing more or less.

The situation itself is too broad to pick one "plot" line. This serves as an overview and introduction.

A watchable presentation, overall.

Netflix constantly keeps pumping out what could be a super interesting documentaries but instead it constantly drags them out way too long.

They started this show with a high pace spoiler of what's going to happen, why?! For those that don't know the story it's just ruined half the twists and turns the story will take...

Then the whole first episode, it spends the next 40 minutes going over exactly what it just told us happened, but now much slower...

This had some interesting bits (as someone that didn't know anything about the story), but I just wish Netflix could sort out the pacing of their documentaries and move things along a bit quicker... I watched a YouTube video on the same thing afterwards and it was more interesting and engaging and got all the info in (and more) in 1 30 minute video...

Everything and I mean everything in this is based off the hard uncredited work of Mandy Matney, the uncredited "local" reporter. Note local as this is meant to be a slam on to discredit her, all the while they took all of her work to make this documentary work. It is amazing that people who are not from the area and really don't know the area and people come in and instead of working with the local reporter who broke the story to start with, they think they know better. They are smarter and are superior to the "local" reporter. Way to take all of her hard work and profit from it. It is sad to say the least.

This barely scratched the surface of the Murdaugh story in 3 episodes. Are there more episodes to be dropped later? Because the third episode ended like it was hinting more was coming: Alex on the phone from jail asking Buster if there was a Netflix taping. It felt cliffhanger-esque but from what I find there's nothing more. This Netflix series didn't tell us anything we didn't already know, and did not go into the depth of the other murders like HBO did. The HBO documentary is SO much more in depth. There were a couple of interesting tidbits here that weren't in the HBO version, but nothing earth shattering. It's like Netflix was late to the game. Overall a dud for those who were already following the story.