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- 2022
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- 2022
- TV-MA
- Netflix
Summary The three-part documentary from Joe Berlinger about serial killer John Wayne Gacy features interviews with survivors, officers, and attorneys as well as select audio from the 60 hours of tapes recorded by investigators while he was on death row.
- 2022
- TV-MA
- Netflix
- 2022
- TV-MA
- Netflix
Conversations with a Killer: The John Wayne Gacy Tapes
Season 1 Premiere: Apr 20, 2022
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Summary The three-part documentary from Joe Berlinger about serial killer John Wayne Gacy features interviews with survivors, officers, and attorneys as well as select audio from the 60 hours of tapes recorded by investigators while he was on death row.
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As an example of the well-worn genre of true-crime docs, it's decently well-structured, moves fast at a mere three hours(!), and accurately pins down the societal ills that Gacy's predation highlighted.
‘Conversations’ is both competently made and very bingeable — two traits that Netflix is surely happy with — but it also is becoming harder to differentiate Berlinger’s work from an episode of “Forensic Files.”
There's not much that's really new here, with Peacock's "John Wayne Gacy: Devil in Disguise" having covered similar territory just last year. But Netflix provides both a wider platform, and the project comes with a somewhat more contemporary hook amid ongoing efforts continue to identify Gacy's victims, some of whom remain unknown.
If you’re from Chicago, or have lived here for any significant length of time, the three-part Netflix documentary “Conversations with a Killer: The John Wayne Gacy Tapes” is little more than a repackaging of the well-known, if disturbing, story of this serial killer. For anyone else. ... Director Joe Berlinger’s series is as decent a retelling as any.
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Production Company:
- Mike Mathis Productions
Initial Release Date: Apr 20, 2022
Number of seasons: 1 Season
Rating: TV-MA
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Awards
Critics' Choice Real TV Awards
• 1 Nomination
