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- 2019
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- Netflix
- 2019
- TV-MA
- Netflix
Summary The documentary series about John Demjanjuk, a Cleveland grandfather accused of being the Nazi concentration camp guard known as "Ivan the Terrible."
- 2019
- TV-MA
- Netflix
- 2019
- TV-MA
- Netflix
The Devil Next Door
Season 1 Premiere: Nov 4, 2019
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Generally Favorable
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6.8
Summary The documentary series about John Demjanjuk, a Cleveland grandfather accused of being the Nazi concentration camp guard known as "Ivan the Terrible."
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Generally Favorable
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Unnervingly vivid and rich. ... Quibbles aside, it’s hard to imagine a more rewarding five hours of television than this encyclopedically detailed chronicle of an accused Nazi war criminal whose prolonged courtroom battles, which ended only with his death in 2012, said so much about the ineradicable memory of the history he represented.
“The Devil Next Door” definitely has narrative twists, but in its current state it seems that five episodes were simultaneously too many and too few; if this is to be a straight retelling of history, the series drags. If it was meant to really interrogate the questions it raises, it’s not thorough enough. That said, it’s a chilling, often intriguing survey of an event that many of us may remember, but in our current political landscape is worth revisiting.
It largely stuck to the relatively straightforward task of delineating events as they unfolded, although even here there were leaps and gaps in the telling I needed to fill in for myself via the internet after it was all over.
Netflix's The Devil Next Door is, at best, only able to answer some of the questions it poses and only able to tackle the complications adequately. Boasting a solid cast of principals from Demjanjuk's original trial, Yossi Bloch and Daniel Sivan's newly available documentary series is strongest on that facet of the story, before struggling and stumbling to make any big-picture arguments.
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Initial Release Date: Nov 4, 2019
Number of seasons: 1 Season
Rating: TV-MA
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Awards
Hollywood Music In Media Awards (HMMA)
• 1 Nomination
