Fresh and Exciting

Simple and well acted, it has tension enough to knot the stomach.

Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

Ok... Let's be honest. It cannot be the best movie but is quite enjoyable. The movie has the potential to develop a great plot for future movies

Michael Peterson has a problem - well two problems actually. His wife is dead, he says from falling down the stairs and repeatedly hitting her head. Amazingly, the couple's best friend had also died in remarkably similar circumstances several years previously, with Michael and Kathy bringing up the victim's two young girls after the tragedy. In what is almost a painfully long series (it's well made, but not exactly a thrill ride) Michael's character is put under the microscope, as is the honesty and expertise of the prosecution's expert witnesses. Michael is a difficult, outwardly unemotional character that is difficult to like or have sympathy for, but his treatment during this case by law enforcement officials, lawyers and even his own family members is deeply questionable. Fascinating but overlong, this is a serious indictment if the US Justice system and its practises.

In many ways this series became what it captured - an exercise in both the tedium and personalities involved in a lengthy court case. The entertainment which was gripping at times, is balanced by many many scenes of the protagonist making dinner, smoking, standing on his soap-box, all things which could have been left out for a sharper watch. Much of the entertainment for me was some of the witnesses and their fruitiness; their levels of expertise stacking up against each other on opposite sides of the case; and the way Peterson, some of his family, and his legal team seem to skate through the whole process with a crazy amount of levity as if escaping conviction was a fait accompli so let's all joke about Peterson going to jail. I suppose some of their behaviour could have been curtailed at Peterson's insistence because they were on his coin, but it must have fed his self-belief (and as others have pointed out, his over-confidence) so he let it be. There's enjoyment to be had, but I found much of it is ironic enjoyment. Give yourself a couple of rainy days to wade through all shots of cooking and Peterson's tangential diatribes which his legal team were paid a pretty penny to listen to.

This docu-series is rediculously long for its content could have easily been done in about an hour. This alone makes it a chore to get through despite it being an interesting story. Overall, not worth the investment.

From the opening scene where he is explaining what happens that night, you can tell the MF is lying. He is a terrible liar. Goes into way too much detail about unimportant stuff to try and 'convince' you he is telling the truth. His body language/tone and speed of his voice both in his interviews, and on the 911 call are dead giveaways to me. If you think this guy is telling the truth, or believe an owl came in the house and murdered his wife, you are a gullible freaking idiot.Watched most of the 1st episode before I had to turn it off. It was so biased for the defense, as they interview his family who say "Before we even saw or heard what happened, we believed our dad". Then to find out one of the people who made this "documentary" had a relationship with the guy? Doesn't surprise me at all. LMAO wake up people.Saw another review on here that said it is an extraordinary story about relationships and emotion. LOL how about the story of a psychopath-sociopath who murdered his wife in cold blood you moron!Can't believe anyone was actually able to make it through the whole series.