The streaming giant has won plaudits for its progressive offerings, but its plethora of shows featuring female victims of murder and rape point to something less appealing
Now popular on Netflix: female victims. There is You, in which Gossip Girl heart-throb Penn Badgley plays a stalker and murderer; Dirty John, an adaptation of the popular true-crime podcast about an abusive relationship; The Innocent Man, based on John Grisham’s only non-fiction book, about a small-town rape and murder; the second season of Making a Murderer; and the Netflix-commissioned Conversations With a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes.
Its quota of Bundy content apparently not yet met for the 30th anniversary of the serial killer’s execution (as 2019 has been morbidly described), the streaming giant has also acquired the rights to the crime drama Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile, starring Zac Efron, for a cool $9m (£7m).
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