The wildest documentaries and docuseries of 2023: cults, murder and more
nypost.comnow-resolved writers and actors strikes, 2023 boasted an embarrassment of riches for unscripted TV. And, it wasn’t your mother’s classy Ken Burns documentaries.
This year’s documentaries covered conspiracy theories, people who believed they were deities, murders, oddball subcultures and news stories so strange that it’s hard to believe they’re true.And yes, there’s always an endless supply of cults.
Here are the wildest documentaries and docuseries of 2023. This unnerving and bizarre docuseries was a news story in the genre of “Truth is stranger than fiction.” It covered the story of Indiana couple Michael and Kristine Barnett, who adopted 6-year-old Natalia Grace from Ukraine and later claimed that she was a sociopathic adult “masquerading” as a child (due to her dwarfism). “[Natalia] threatened to stab my sons, drag their bodies outside and bury them under the deck,” Michael alleged in the docuseries, which aired in May.
In the six-part series, Michael described the alleged abuse that he, Kristine and their biological sons, Jacob, Wesley and Ethan claim they faced at the hands of Natalia.After believing that she was an adult posing as a child, Michael said, “We don’t know who she is.
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