![]() Think back on the retro TV series, which was set in late-1800s Minnesota, and it'll likely stir up a discomforting image of a hard, sad life without WiFi and Netflix. If you’re looking to be traumatized by television but don't want to follow the herd, before you search for the next brutal crime story, consider revisiting the most terrifying, deceptive, disturbing show television has ever produced: Little House on the Prairie. Not to jump the gun or anything but I watch true crime documentaries on the first date.- Parasite Hilton March 6, 2018 An affinity for crime TV is now something we brag about as a “quirky” personality trait, though it's common as dirt. Making a Murderer, The Jinx, Abducted in Plain Sight and Don’t Fuck With Cats entertain, scare us and let us feel virtuous, at least compared to the evil on the screen. More than 1.6 million print copies of true-crime books were sold in 2018, compared to 976,000 copies in 2016, industry figures show." How much do we like them? According to Time: "When Serial launched in 2014, it became the fastest podcast to reach 5 million downloads and streams in iTunes’ history. (Women like them more than men, generally, partly because women find them useful for tips about how to avoid becoming crime victims themselves, Forbes reported, which we hope is the saddest sentence we'll publish this week.) The genre's revival - it had its first heyday in the '80s - has raised questions about both who the audience is and why we find true-crime documentaries so fascinating. ![]() Thanks to the pandemic, some trends solidified into routine parts of our lives: Zoom meetings, outdoor concerts, online shopping and an insatiable thirst for bloody crime.Īs if the world wasn't scary enough, gorging ourselves on the goriest and most shocking crime stories became a common pandemic pastime. ![]()
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