It sucked me in. It's a pretty well done show, with good production value for the genre. I like the interview format with him, he is a really, really weird guy, that's for sure. And then the big question, for each of the 3 murders, whodunnit?
I first became involved in this Durst stuff when I saw "All Good Things" on Netflix. I mean, I had read about him in the papers as the events unfolded, but didn't realize how remarkably intriguing the story was. So I was interested to see if this series covered new ground.
As I once heard someone say: "There are so many fascinating true stories, I wonder why people who write screenplays spend most of their time making things up".
Taht sounds interesting. I'll have to check it out on Netflix. It is interesting to see a high-quality HBO show produced on a real-life topic in this interesting sort of docu-drama format. They could probably find a lot of other interesting stories to tell as well.
If you're referring to that envelope sent to Susan Berman then I'm sure Durst will say someone saw his handwriting and copied it in the "cadaver" note in order to frame him.
This show is really, really good, although it sort of took a weird turn in this week's episode. I wasn't convinced that he had anything to do with Susan Berman's death until the note came out. Now, I'm convinced that he's involved. The miniseries docu-drama format is actually quite compelling for this story. I can't wait for the last episode!
The thread title is misspelled, it's actually The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst, the operative word is deaths. I didn't catch it at first and assumed Durst would die at the conclusion. Deaths probably means people who might have died by his hands. Unlike many other nonfiction productions I have begrudgingly stayed away from Wikipedia so as not to spoil the tale.
Well, there's no spoiler available, so Wikipedia away! You're right, I messed up the title, and yes, it is a reference to the deaths that he was involved with or implicated in.
The timing of this makes it appear that a cop somewhere just got HBO and realized that Durst is still out there and there are a couple of unsolved crimes too.
Ratings don't matter for the final episode. It's not like Durst is just waiting for a greenlight to (not) kill anyone else until a second season is announced.
"OK, Bob, just hold off until the overnights are in, will 'ya?". :kiss:
I was watching "Foxcatcher" last night and, while the movie did take liberties with the facts, it's another fascinating tale of tremendous wealth gone awry, to put it mildly. Of course DuPont was one of the few people who could have bought and sold Durst several times over; otherwise, the tales are similar (granted, there's no question DuPont fired the shots but his motives are still complex and murky). The two protagonists even bear some resemblance to each other.
I guess it's too late to interview DuPont, though, eh? (HBO executive: "Drat!").
When he went to the bathroom the last minutes of the show, his mike was live & the conversation he had with himself tells much. Think the guy has a split personality & basically admitted to killing all 3 of em!
Well, you see, to me, the "I killed all three of them" comment was the least incriminating. Taken independently of everything else we know about Durst, I could easily see someone saying that sarcastically; e.g. "yea, I guess you're telling people I killed all of 'em". The real WTF moment (again, IMO) was the letter from last week, coupled with the first quote I heard from the bathroom last night: "They caught me" (paraphrasing, I don't recall the exact words). Plus there supposedly were unaired scenes provided to the LAPD containing what might be additional evidence.
"What the hell did I do? I peed on them all, of course."
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