8. Making a Murderer

Sure, there are things to quibble about — it was probably too long, it was repetitive, it meandered through meditations about timelines and witness accounts. It also garnered criticism that its filmmakers are as biased as the justice system they’re attempting to unmask. But Making a Murderer is also undeniably gripping, and its slow journey through a very strange set of crimes touches on vital, infuriating, and little-seen aspects of criminal justice as it operates on a local level. Its impact on real-world eventscontinues to unfold; its impact on true-crime television will continue to reverberate for a long time.