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- 2017
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- 2017
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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.
- 2017
- TV-MA
- Netflix
- 2017
- TV-MA
- Netflix
The Keepers
Season 1 Premiere: May 19, 2017
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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.
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Generally Favorable
Based on 11 Critic Reviews
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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.
Absorbing and emotionally gripping.
If the series is maybe less viscerally satisfying, it's probably more spiritual rich.
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.
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.
Its blend of color-tinted recreations, on-camera interviews, and archival photographs may not reinvent the format, but The Keepers understands that one crime does not exist in a vacuum. By acknowledging and documenting the environment that could lead to a brutal murder, the seven-part series says more about the power in being able to tell your own story.
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.
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Production Company:
- Film 45
- Tripod Media
Initial Release Date: May 19, 2017
Number of seasons: 1 Season
Rating: TV-MA
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Awards
Online Film & Television Association
• 3 Nominations
Cinema Eye Honors Awards, US
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Television Critics Association Awards
• 1 Nomination