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SummaryThe three-part documentary series directed by Jason Hehir examines the 1989 case where Charles Stuart claimed he and his wife were shot in Boston by a black man before committing suicide when the case unraveled.

Murder In Boston: Roots, Rampage & Reckoning

Season 1 Premiere: 
Dec 4, 2023
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Dec 8, 2023
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The show is a daring take on the saturated genre. .... When it returns to the investigation and drops the “oh-too-predictable” bombshells, it contextualizes them beyond the gritty details. Hehir’s direction and story sequence is riveting, and the interview subjects have much to offer, whether it be from a first-hand account or through decades of research and advocacy.
Dec 5, 2023
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Slate
Murder in Boston doesn’t break much formal ground: It hews mostly to the industry-standard mix of archival footage and talking-head interviews, and even includes Hehir’s much-memed Last Dance technique of occasionally having subjects watch footage of one another’s testimonies on an iPad. But the series is refreshingly nuanced, rich in context, and deftly assured in its narrative decisionmaking.
Dec 4, 2023
80
Wall Street Journal
"Murder in Boston" in its three parts ("Roots" then "Rampage" then "Reckoning") is a captivating crime story, a socio-political treatise and even evidence that life can get better.
Dec 4, 2023
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Entertainment Weekly
Murder in Boston: Roots, Rampage & Reckoning gives voice to the people who were unjustly victimized by law enforcement and examines the legacy of that painful rush to judgment.
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Dec 6, 2023
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UncleWillard
Ugh. All roads lead to racism. I remember when this happened, and it's not about race, it's about a guy killing his wife. He said it was a black guy to throw the cops off and get away with it. To make this about racist history is redundant as all of it was because black people did not have the standing they do today, but they do have it today. I'm not saying racism is cured because it never will be. We are clannish people, the human race, and we gravitate towards our own for the most part. I'm sick of everything being tainted by intersectionality, DEI, and this overwhelming desire by the left to tear down Western Civilization. We have done nothing but progress in this country, and in that, we are all equal. No demographic is suffering now more than in the past. I'm not saying the work is done, but the current climate would have you believe that Western Civilization, particularly the US (which is actually the pinnacle of human rights) was a hell on Earth. I can't tell with these docuseries if it was designed to sneak this woke crap in or that it was a good doc that the corporate stooges had to infuse with it. Regardless, I'm done.
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Dec 4, 2023
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