We talked to the series' co-showrunner Maggie Cohn about everything from that memorable sex scene to the controversy around the show.
The documentary’s success would help create the genre of serialized true crime that’s since become omnipresent—a mixture of reportage and techniques from fiction, like cliffhangers and well-executed surprise twists. Now, the documentary that helped create the now-familiar genre has inspired a show that interrogates some of its often black-and-white treatment of truth, justice, and the dead women at the center of the tales.
Embodied by Collette, who has perfected portrayals of maternal and domestic angst, the series creates a vision of Peterson sketched in the negative space left by her absence. “If Kathleen had not been who she was, her death would not have had the impact it did. And so when you look at the impact her absence had, you begin to realize who she is,” Cohn says.
due to the fact that Michael slept with men during his marriage, and Cohn says that the writers felt that it was important that the show “explore the diversity of sexual experiences.”“The scene in the kitchen was an act that isn’t often portrayed, so it has this sense of novelty to it,” she says. “But then it’s two people doing it as they’re making dinner, and she’s in sweatpants. That’s just sex… It’s not all like high heels and lingerie, it’s intimacy in a kitchen.
Despite the strong reviews, the show’s not without its detractors—and some of the highest-profile criticism has been levied by the real-life people depicted, including de Lestrade, editor Sophie Brunet, and Michael Peterson’s former defense attorney. Among other plot points, the filmmakers have objected to the show’s suggestion that they crafted the series to aid in Peterson’s legal battle
and that Brunet and Peterson’s romantic relationship—she reached out to him after working on the documentary and the two dated for about 13 years—began while Brunet was still at work on the documentary’s original installments. According to
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