Exclusive: ‘The Staircase’ filmmakers feel “betrayed” by #TheStaircaseHBOMax. https://t.co/ADdOorUnH9
- VANITY FAIR (@VanityFair) May 13, 2022
Jean-Xavier de Lestrade has taken issue with HBO Max’s The Staircase series. The filmmaker behind The Staircase documentary series (currently on Netflix) says he felt betrayed by the series and wants a ( Read more... )

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Step into the Peterson home. Inspired by the location where the real-life events took place, experience an in-depth set tour of HBO Max’s The Staircase. The limited series explores the life of Michael Peterson (Colin Firth), his sprawling North Carolina family, and the suspicious death of his wife, Kathleen Peterson (Toni Collette ( Read more... )

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1x4: Church and State

The investigation intensifies after Pyre uncovers details of the Lafferty family’s fundamentalist beliefs, sparking a search for missing Lafferty brothers, Ron and Dan, and putting Pyre at odds with his own church leaders.

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BREAKING: Elon Musk said he will reverse Twitter’s permanent ban of former President Trump if he follows through with his plan to buy the company. Twitter banned Trump in January 2021 for “incitement of violence” following the U.S. Capitol insurrection. https://t.co/NhUQTUeHP5
- The Associated Press (@AP) May 10, 2022
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Freddie Highmore, Maisie Williams Unite for ‘Manacled Mormon Case’ Adaptation ‘Sinner V. Saints’ https://t.co/GlOK7Tys7J
- Variety (@Variety) May 9, 2022
Freddie Highmore and Maisie Williams will star in an adaptation of a bizarre true story about an American ex-beauty queen who was accused of kidnapping and raping a Mormon missionary in England ( Read more... )

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1x3: Surrender

The ongoing investigation leads Pyre and Taba into untrod woods where they unearth information that challenges Pyre’s own faith, and draw more Laffertys into suspicion and custody.

Cast interview with Andrew Garfield, Gil Birmingham, Daisy Edgar Jones, Chloe Pirrie, and Tyner Rushing:

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The limited series is an adaptation of Jon Krakauer’s 2003 true-crime bestseller of the same name about the gruesome killings of Brenda Wright Lafferty (Daisy Edgar-Jones) and her baby daughter, which shocked a quiet Mormon town in the 1980s. The show, like the book, delves into the founding of the Church of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) by Joseph ( Read more... )

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Based on the true-crime memoir (Tokyo Vice: An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan by Jake Adelstein), an American from the Midwest moved to Japan at 19 and ended up attaining a coveted position as a crime reporter for the The Yomiuri Shimbun, one of Tokyo's largest newspapers, in 1999. Taken under the wing of a veteran detective in the ( Read more... )

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