OT: HBO Documentary "The Jinx"

[THE Bruce Dickinson]

There have been 6 installments, all which I binge watched today. Absolutely incredible. Investigates the life and murders surrounding Robert Durst. Best TV I have seen in years. Anybody else see it ?

 

[Hankp22]

It was awesome

And he made headlines not long ago.http://abc13.com/news/robert-durst-arrested-on-murder-charges/558767/

 

[THE Bruce Dickinson]

Yeah. The headline was what actually sparked my interest in the show. It was amazing.

 

[DamnGoodDawg]

Who killed LimpBizkit?

 

[PineGroveBully]

What killed me, no pun intended, is how this midget was smart enough to get away scott free with killing 3 people in 3 different states, one of them Texas none-the-less, yet seconds after finishing an interview the dubmass goes to the pisser only to forget he has a hot mike and confesses to "killing them all." It was a very good watch. Ive saw the headline about getting arrested in New Orleans in the last day or so for murder but was it for one of the the aforementioned murders or did he actually do it again? Edited to add that I see now that the arrest was for the Susan Berman murder in CA, not a new homicide.

Makes me look forward to the new season of "True Detective", although as much as I mostly like Vince Vaughn, I dont see anyway that he and Collin Ferrell come anywhere close to matching Magic Mike and Woody Harrellson's performance from season 1. Those two together was some of the best tv I have ever saw. Plus I dont think there is anyway the show taking place in California will come close to matching the back drop of voodoo country that Louisiana gave the show.

 

[Dawgzilla]

Chilling television. The penultimate episode just about gave me nightmares. They pulled out that envelope that had Susan Berman's address written the same way it was written in the "anonymous note" and I was freaked out almost as much as her stepson. I haven't even watched last night's episode yet, but I've seen the headlines....

 

[THE Bruce Dickinson]

The last episode

is one of the best pieces of television I have ever watched, If not THE best. If you have liked the first 5 the last is gonna blow you away

 

[Faustdog]

I think he gets off again when it goes to trial. That stuff caught on his mic when he didn't know it was on will probably be inadmissible. He will have a top notch defense team that will explain away the letter. He's already admitted to killing and dismembering one guy and gotten away with it.

 

[THE Bruce Dickinson]

Yeah you may be right. I was wondering if what he said would be allowed in court, too. However, the letter with the handwriting and the two misspellings of "Beverley" is pretty damning, but to most normal people, multiple garbage bags full of body parts is too. Time will tell.

 

[Dawgzilla]

Yes, I doubt his mumblings to himself in the bathroom will be admissible, because those statements don't prove anything. He was mumbling to himself, and he could easily provide explanations for what he was talking about. It certainly was not any type of admission, because he wasn't talking to anyone.

The envelope will be much harder to explain, and then I wonder if they would allow a jury to hear his on-screen conclusion that "whoever wrote the letter to the police must have killed Susan Berman."

The body parts in garbage bags would have been damning, but he admitted in Court that he killed his neighbor and chopped him up. He just claimed the killing was an accident, and the Galveston DA was too stupid to seek a lesser charge against him.

 

[Dawgzilla]

I watched the last episode during lunch. I was a little underwhelmed, but maybe I expected too much. The bulk of the episode was just Durst ducking their interviews, and then confronting him with the evidence was a little disppointing.

But then that mumbling in the bathroom.....

 

[Dawgzilla]

He wasn't "Smart enough", he was RICH enough to get away with it. In Texas he had great attorneys, and in New York he had a police force that didn't want to investigate the son of a real estate mogul.

Speaking of his Texas attorneys, though, I'm a little surprised by how much they revealed on camera. I guess they got Durst's permission to discuss details of the case, and, of course, in Texas he was already tried and found Not Guilty so there is nothing for him to worry about. But they discussed other facts about Durst that could be relevant to the New York and California cases.....

 

[121Josey]

True Detectives**

I spent the first three episodes wondering where it was going and what makes it "entertaining". But that next to last episode was gold. What a dubmass - even more than the residents of Galveston.

 

[PineGroveBully]

I just dont see the second season being near as entertaining with Collin Ferrell and Vince Vaughn playing the lead with California being the setting. The brilliance of Woody Harrelson and Matthew Mcconaughey playing off of each other with the creepiness of Louisiana's voodoo country is what made that first season so captivating. I think the 2nd season starts around Juneish.

 

[BulldogBlitz]

well darn. i don't know which episodes i have seen. i'll have to binge watch now for sure. i have caught two of them.

 

[Xenomorph]

You're obviously unaware that HBO hired a large group of porn stars...

...for a "colossal" orgy scene in season 2.

let me add that I still don't know how I feel about the simple ending of season 1. I think it still sorta pisses me off.

 

[esplanade91]

Apparently the hot mike happened before anything else. Asking him about the letters was one of the first things the film makers did.

I listened to an interview about the ethics of documentary production and having to dance the fine line of journalism and entertainment. The Jinx was done out of order but not in a tasteless manner, but it did leave viewers believing that 1 little thing put him in jail finally.

 

[121Josey]

Then why did they call it the 2nd interview? And create a scene on how they were going to get him to do the 2nd interview?

I did think he 2nd interview was a lot less informal than the 1st interview.

The first half of the documentary was nothing but back stories and third-party interviews in order to give the Bob Durst interviews context.

There were two hot mike incidents (and probably more not included).