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| HBO | Season Premiere Date: June 28, 2020 |
Summary:
The Liz Garbus-directed six-part documentary series based on Michelle McNamara's nonfction book about her search for the Golden State Killer features interviews with investigators, survivors and family of the killer as well as original recordings and archival footage.
Genre(s):
Movie/Mini-Series, Documentary
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Season 1 Episodes
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S1:E7. Show Us Your Face
Air Date: June 21, 2021
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S1:E6. Walk Into the Light
Air Date: August 2, 2020
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S1:E6. Walk Into the Light
Air Date: August 2, 2020
Jul 1, 2020
While authors have produced plenty of genuinely literary true-crime books since Capote published his celebrated 1966 “nonfiction novel,” the true-crime docuseries format has been far less blessed with artful standouts. I’ll Be Gone in the Dark, which bears the same title as McNamara’s posthumously published 2018 book of the same title, proves that it can be done. ... Garbus doesn’t so much re-create as expand on the twilight potency of McNamara’s book. ... Six sensitive, intelligent hours.
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Jun 25, 2020
Intricate and absorbing. ... [Garbus] doesn’t waste a single minute of “I’ll Be Gone in the Dark’s” six hours. The series works as a near-perfect example of how to manage several concurrent themes, tangents and narratives at the same time, while never once failing to captivate the viewer.
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Jun 29, 2020
The series is a fitting companion to McNamara's bestseller, but it's also a sprawling meditation on loss — loss of life, loss of the person you used to be — and of the secrets that haunt us. ... The power of her work, and of the series that is her legacy, is that Michelle McNamara helped forge a path for survivors — including her own family — to walk into the light. To speak, at last, and shatter the silence.
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Jun 25, 2020
Using the classy kind of re-enactments that utilize evocative shots of important objects rather than non-union actors, Garbus shoots much of I’ll Be Gone In The Dark essentially in the first-person, putting viewers into McNamara’s sleepless, paranoid mindset. And yet, she remains an elusive character.
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Jun 29, 2020
“I’ll Be Gone in the Dark” has some pacing issues and can be clumsy in its attempt to move between the various crimes, the investigation and McNamara’s impassioned quest. But it does something most true crime productions do not: It offers a form of closure for the women and men whose lives were shattered, or whose loved ones were murdered, by a prolific monster. ... But the docuseries is also a fitting eulogy for McNamara, who didn’t live to see justice served but lives on in this dueling narrative of compelling timelines.
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Jul 13, 2020
I'll Be Gone in the Dark isn't your usual, run-of-the-mill crime docu-series, which explains why it's a bit of a structural mess. Too drawn out at six parts, at its best it's a deeply personal ode to the late author and amateur crime sleuth Michelle McNamara, her dogged work to catch the Golden State Killer, and a sweetly told love story with comic Patton Oswalt.
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Jun 22, 2020
In line with the autobiographical bent of the source material, I'll Be Gone in the Dark is as much an extended eulogy of McNamara as it is a recounting of the Golden State Killer case. These two modes of the six-hour docuseries finally find a shared theme in shattered domestic peace very late in the series, but McNamara, as she's depicted here by Garbus and her team, isn't dynamic enough as a traditional screen "character" to hold such sustained interest. What should be a bingeable mystery feels too often like an indulgent slog.
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Jan 14, 2021
What Michelle achieved is interesting enough without having to delve too deeply into her background story which this docu-series does. Could of been tighter on the case and specifically Michelle's work and therefore an epsiode or 2 shorter
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Seasons & Episodes
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Season 1
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Season 1 Overview
Air Date: June 28, 2020
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S1:E7. Show Us Your Face
Air Date: June 21, 2021
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S1:E6. Walk Into the Light
Air Date: August 2, 2020
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S1:E6. Walk Into the Light
Air Date: August 2, 2020
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S1:E5. Monsters Recede but Never Vanish
Air Date: July 26, 2020
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S1:E5. Monsters Recede but Never Vanish
Air Date: July 26, 2020
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S1:E4. The Motherlode
Air Date: July 19, 2020
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S1:E4. The Motherlode
Air Date: July 19, 2020
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S1:E3. Rat in a Maze
Air Date: July 12, 2020
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S1:E2. Reign of Terror
Air Date: July 5, 2020
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S1:E1. Murder Habit
Air Date: June 28, 2020
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Season 1 Overview