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- HBO
- Apr 21, 2024
- HBO
- Apr 21, 2024
Summary The six-part documentary from Andrew Jarecki and Marc Smerling features interviews with New York City real estate heir Robert Durst, who was suspected (and acquitted in one case) of three murders.
- HBO
- Apr 21, 2024
- HBO
- Apr 21, 2024
Season Premiere: Apr 21, 2024
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Summary The six-part documentary from Andrew Jarecki and Marc Smerling features interviews with New York City real estate heir Robert Durst, who was suspected (and acquitted in one case) of three murders.
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 22 Critic Reviews
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73% Positive
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27% Mixed
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Affords myriad insider perspectives on its mysteries and its players’ tangled loyalties, all while presenting new characters, unearthing fresh clues and testimony, and digging deeper into Durst’s cold, cunning psyche.
The Jinx puts to the test the question, “Would it TRULY have been enough if The Jinx were just an exceptionally well-produced true crime docuseries?” Because that, so far, is what the second season is. There are plenty of very good interviews, and the case zigs and zags with an engaging sense of mounting unease. Plus there’s a lot of Robert Durst, just mostly in jailhouse conversations from prison. But it isn’t quite the same.
With the ending of Part Two all but assured, the docuseries' greatest strength lies less in any mysterious conclusion, but rather in tracking the fascinating, eccentric, and occasionally troubling stories of the trial's dramatic personae.
Jarecki certainly knows how to create drama, and “The Jinx Part Two” continues to provide good entertainment though it remains to be seen if it will again end with a bombshell. Regardless, the series offers examples of smart, pointed lawyering by prosecutors and Durst’s defense team.
While The Jinx – Part Two is still worth watching, it feels not nearly as essential and compelling as the original series was, and some of its more meta moments left us scratching our heads.
As a piece of entertainment, the new series works almost as well as its predecessor: Jarecki and his team pace the new interviews nicely with a visual blend of mute re-enactment and close-up shots of voice recorders, ensuring every episode ends with a compelling prompt to keep watching. But their packaging and tonal decisions sometimes strike a bum note.
While they’re not without interesting moments and characters, they struggle on the whole to justify their existence as anything but a reminder of a show that people really loved a long time ago.
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