The Keepers

Name: The Keepers
Genre: News/Documentary, Suspense, Documentary
Released: May 19, 2017
Rating: 78

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Netflix | Release Date: May 19, 2017

Summary: Ryan White's seven-part true crime documentary focuses on the investigations by Abbie Schaub and Gemma Hoskins into the 1969 murder of Sister Cathy Cesnik, a young English teacher at a Catholic high school in Baltimore.

Genre(s): News/Documentary, Suspense, Documentary

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S1:E7. The Conclusion
Air Date: May 19, 2017
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S1:E6. The Web
Air Date: May 19, 2017
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S1:E5. The Suspects
Air Date: May 19, 2017

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Jeff Jensen

May 15, 2017

Season 1 Review: The Keepers is addictive serial made for the post-Serial market. ... White’s narrative is a nesting doll of colorful characters giving way to more colorful characters--stories inside stories, mysteries within mysteries. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Brian Tallerico

May 18, 2017

Season 1 Review: The heartbreaking The Keepers [is] a fascinating (but overlong) piece about the murder of a Baltimore nun in 1969 and the revelations that would emerge over the next five decades. Read full review

Lorraine Ali

May 18, 2017

Season 1 Review: The Keepers is much more sophisticated and well-researched [than “Making a Murderer”], offering several different probabilities throughout its seven episodes as to what happened to Sister Cathy. It also aims to solve a murder rather than set a convicted murderer free. It’s executed with empathy, but not to the point where The Keepers lets a foregone conclusion drive the narrative. Read full review

Hank Stuever

May 19, 2017

Season 1 Review: Absorbing and emotionally gripping. Read full review

Alex Abad-Santos

May 22, 2017

Season 1 Review: What makes that bigger picture so maddeningly compelling is the way The Keepers explores a pathology of abuse and its effect on victims, chronicles the strange inescapability of trauma, reflects on how society treats the word of women, and reveals the shattering reality that justice can feel so empty. Read full review

Katie Rife

May 19, 2017

Season 1 Review: Mostly these are jaw-dropping tales about horrific things that happened a long time ago, limiting the urgency of the narrative. ... In that way, The Keepers is more of a meditation on memory and truth than a murder mystery, and the telling of the tale is a resolution in itself. Read full review

Brian Lowry

May 19, 2017

Season 1 Review: White's devotion to the case is apparent, but The Keepers seems like an instance where a less-expansive canvas -- and the concentrated approach that would have required -- would have been more beneficial than the latitude to venture down every corridor, even when they might lead to a dead end. Read full review

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svengold

Feb 12, 2020

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. What is purported to be a tale about murdered nun, Cathy Cesnik, this quickly devolves into one story after another about horrific sexual abuse at the hands of a priest. Our star victim is Jean Hargadon Wehner, a life coach and certified reflexologist. Netflix regales her tales of depravity for 2 episodes before dropping the bomb in 3 that these are repressed memories. She never told anyone until adulthood, specifically during the repressed memory craze in the early 80's. She also has multiple personalities who were abused by an uncle and strangers, well before her abuse at the hands of the Church. The fun doesn't stop there. She's also claimed this same uncle has abused her 10 siblings, though none can remember this. As far as the church rapes go, supposedly they were from 4 priests, 5 brothers, 2 cops, 3 teachers, and a local politician. Oh, and she also remembers killing a nun herself, though never mentions her name. But you won't hear about much of this because it destroys Netflix's narrative. Yeah, she is certifiably insane. And so are all the supposed 'journalists' who never bothered to do their jobs & blindly speak well of this horrible person. Need more proof? Jean Hargadon Wehner is also known as Jane Doe, who sued the Catholic Church for $40 million. She then settled for $50k. That's right, from $40 million to $50k. That's called a cash grab, folks. Seriously, it should be criminal to distort the truth this much.… Expand

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Season 1

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- Season 1 Overview
  Air Date: May 19, 2017
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  S1:E7. The Conclusion
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  S1:E6. The Web
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  S1:E5. The Suspects
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  S1:E4. The Burial
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  S1:E3. The Revelation
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  S1:E2. The School
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  S1:E1. The Murder
  Air Date: May 19, 2017