‘The Staircase’ Is Already One of the Best True-Crime Adaptations of 2022

2022 is shaping up to be a year of true crime on television, except unlike our old obsession with documentaries, now it’s the fiction adaptations shooting to number one on the streaming charts. We started with scammer stories like Inventing Anna and WeCrashed, but now it seems we’ve taken a darker turn, with The Girl From Plainville and now The Staircase taking real-life murder cases and giving them the Hollywood treatment. I wrote previously in my review of The Girl From Plainville about how difficult it is to make a courtroom drama, well, dramatic. I feel confident that The Staircase… Read Full Article