‘Murdaugh Murders’ Season 2: Why Jailed Patriarch Alex Murdaugh Didn’t Defend Himself in the Netflix Series
variety.comEmily Longeretta “Murdaugh Murders: A Southern Scandal” is back. Three new episodes of the Netflix docuseries dropped on Wednesday, providing a closer look at the days leading up to the 2021 murder of Maggie and Paul Murdaugh, and what happened between those deaths and Alex Murdaugh’s conviction in March 2023.
While the first season, which premiered on Feb. 22, led up to the trial, Michael Gasparro and Julia Willoughby Nason, the docuseries’ director/executive producers, knew there was more story to tell. “We kind of had a lot in the wings ready to go, and a lot of unfinished business essentially that we were really excited to dive back into,” Willoughby Nason says. “When I saw the witnesses on the stand during that six-week trial, I wanted to interview them.
I wanted to see what they really wanted to say. So we won’t run a rehash anything, but we wanted to go more intimate and deeper into the actual people that lived it.” One of the big challenges of putting out a second batch of episodes was the timeline.
The team wanted to make sure that the turnaround was fast enough to ensure the audience still cared about the case. Murdaugh was found guilty of the murders on March 2, one week after Season 1 of the docuseries dropped.
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