Netflix’s documentary series “Making a Murderer” arrived quietly in December 2015. That is, until bored subscribers with nothing to do over the holidays started to watch and told their friends until you couldn’t turn on the news or have a dinner party without it coming up.
The series documented the improbable life of Steven Avery, a Wisconsin man who was wrongfully convicted of rape in the 1980s and exonerated in 2003, only to be arrested and convicted of the murder of 25-year-old Theresa Halbach a few years later. It’s an incredible story, and, because it wasn’t well-known outside of Wisconsin, it enthralled and shocked Netflix viewers and became a sensation.
Avery’s story – and that of his nephew, Brendan Dassey, who was convicted as an accomplice to the murder – didn’t end with the conclusion of the original docuseries. Directors Laura Ricciardi and Moira Demos are clearly invested in these men, and they continued filming. The result is 10 new episodes hitting Netflix on Friday.
“Making a Murderer Part 2” portrays the aftermath of events in the original series and the ongoing efforts to void both men’s convictions. For devotees of the show who became passionate about Avery and Dassey’s causes, “Part 2” is the equivalent of fan service: further confirmation that they’re innocent, demonstrated by an even more painstaking examination of the flawed evidence against them.
But for those with a more casual interest in the cases and the true-crime genre they helped spawn, the sequel is a lesser version of the original, with the same style and trappings slapped on a less-compelling story.
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