Daniel D'Addario Chief TV CriticA year ago, HBO’s “I’ll Be Gone in the Dark” emerged as something truly special — a true-crime series with a sense of probing curiosity that extended beyond the lurid.
Based on the work of the late writer Michelle McNamara, the series achieved a sort of double feat. It worked both as an exacting and meticulous recreation of McNamara’s work to identify the man she called the “Golden State Killer” and as a moody, unsettled examination of McNamara’s life, and the ways in which her work consumed her.The series was a small, nearly perfect thing in a genre distinguished by bombast and lack of care; had I not been on family leave during list-making season, it would have placed high in my top ten of 2020.
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