Is this the widest gulf in quality between the two shows under discussion in Blotter history? Maybe! But Netflix's new three-part series on the "Commission Case" that brought down the New York Mob is disciplined, compelling, and reminds me and guest Jeb Lund that Rudy Giuliani didn't always completely suck at everything.and that barbers really have a challenging job sometimes.
Collider's interview with director Tiller Russell.Hector Berrellez alleges the CIA got the series taken off."Midnight In The Garden Of East Texas," by Skip Hollandsworth.Brace yourself for more government malfeasance: it's The Blotter Presents, Episode 153. But that doesn't mean we wouldn't have changed anything.or that we weren't happy to hear Robert Stack in a voice-over. The case of what really happened to murdered DEA agent Kiki Camarena premiered last week, with nearly as little fanfare, and while we're still not clear on why it got disappeared, it's a compelling and confidently shot four-parter featuring clear explainers and flavorful anecdotes. Grab a Smoothie Of Doom to fortify yourself for.the second Most Wanted topic, Amazon's The Last Narc, a series Jessica Liese and I meant to talk about months ago, before Amazon yanked it unceremoniously.
It's a thumbs-sideways from both of us on the movie, which is not quite good, but not all that bad, and has some anachronism issues and PSA pacing that undercut surprisingly decent acting. These Are Their Stories co-host Kevin Flynn joins me to talk about Ann Rule's Sleeping With Danger, starring Elisabeth "Serena Southerlyn" Röhm and Leslie "ME Rodgers" Hendrix. Check out Native deodorant and Hello Fresh!.
My Primetimer review of Jeffrey Epstein: Filthy Rich.The podcast may not be fast, but you'll be furious by the end of The Blotter Presents, Episode 154. It's a straightforward narrative without a lot of production bells and whistles, but it's also a very careful accounting (so to speak) of all the different bad actors in the world of mortgage fraud, from inexperienced brokers to rapacious CEOs to the Wall Street traders who created the demand. The Con also told us something new, about a different kind of predatory behavior - the outright frauds that led to the financial crisis of 2008. It's a good docuseries that's also a difficult sit, and the rare discussion of the case of late that had the capacity to tell us something new. Omar Gallaga returns to discuss two very grim and infuriating properties, starting with Lifetime's Surviving Jeffrey Epstein, which centers the survivors of Epstein's monstrousness while also indicting a society that let him manipulate it with shocking impunity. Eater NY on Marchi's (and the Eater's Digest podcast).The Most Wanted/ Target Number One Wikipedia page.
We recommend it, and not just because it kiiiind of makes John Douglas look like an ass for claiming nobody knew how to profile properly before 1974, so hike your pants up to your pits and have a listen to The Blotter Presents, Episode 155. The 1956 thriller stars Vincent Price, Drew Barrymore's dad, and a realistically sodden Dana Stevens in a tale about a callow press scion using a string of murders to pit his top men (.uch) against each other for a plum job.
We do it twice, as a matter of fact, as our Cold Case topic is While The City Sleeps, a movie that references the William Heirens case but is actually about whether media's attempts to "make" a story is itself the story.or criminal. Featuring Josh Hartnett's foxy 'stache and a breakout ugly performance from Jim Gaffigan, Most Wanted interrogates the role of budgetary concerns in law-enforcement corruption and/or incompetence.and we interrogate the crusading-reporter subgenre and whether it's true to life. Nope, that's not a typo: Best Evidence publisher Eve Batey joins me to talk about a movie that's still in "theaters," Most Wanted.