One thing is certain in these days of uncertainty: until the end of humanity, and maybe even after it, there will continue to be murders, and as long as there will be murders – there will also be docu-murder. Even if there will be no more cinema or television, we will already draw on the walls new diagrams and evidence from the murder case that will stir up the caves we will return to. But that post-apocalyptic day is still a long way off, in the meantime Netflix is with us and this week’s murder doc is Murdaugh Murders: a Southern Scandal. Yes, this series is called Murdaugh Murders and it’s about a family named Murdaugh where there have been, well, two cases of murder, and yes, we can run on this joke for a long time.
OK, we laughed, we had fun, what’s really going on here? A rather disturbed story about the Murdaugh family, who more or less rule a small town in the southern United States, yes, just like the plot of some old western, there is this family in the town that no one wants to mess with. Then a fatal boat accident tarnishes the family’s reputation, and… things start happening and bodies start piling up – even within the family. And there is also at least one fake murder attempt, for those who also want a good pile of lies and conspiracies in all their murder. We strongly recommend not to speculate on the current family situation (the relevant trial is currently underway in the United States) because it’s really a shame about the self-spoiler – it’s really not going in the directions you think it’s going. And all of this comes from the creator of Fyre Fraud, Hulu’s successful docu about the failed Fyre festival (as opposed to Fyre on Netflix, which is the unsuccessful docu), so you know there’s a pair of directors here who know exactly how to tell you this story.
Murdaugh Murders: a Southern Scandal (yes, it still makes us laugh, sorry), now on Netflix