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- "Staircase" is a pretty standard highbrow crime drama, one with unreliable narrators, angry lawyers and emotional breakdowns. It is less about how Kathleen Peterson died and more about what lies and half-truths can do to a family. And that family is meticulously acted by a stellar cast, particularly its younger members.
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May 4, 2022 · Antonio Campos has accomplished more or less the same invigorating feat with HBO’s new miniseries “The Staircase,” which treats a true crime story with an incredible sense of style, urgency, and vision, all in support of a juicy, mega narrative that lives or dies on the integrity of its storyteller. “The Staircase” is both a masterful ...
May 5, 2022 · The notorious documentary series about the death of an author’s wife gets a star-packed fictionalisation that is practically fizzing with tension.
- Lucy Mangan
May 4, 2022 · In 2001, Kathleen Peterson was found dead in her Durham, N.C., home. Her husband, Michael, was accused of her murder, and a Netflix documentary followed. Now, a new HBO Max series revisits the case.
May 6, 2022 · A review of the HBO Max series ‘The Staircase,’ a scripted version of the docuseries about Michael Peterson, played by Colin Firth, who is accused of killing his wife Kathleen, played by Toni...
- Jen Chaney
- TV Critic
With Colin Firth, Toni Collette, Michael Stuhlbarg, Patrick Schwarzenegger. Tells the story of Michael Peterson, a crime novelist accused of killing his wife Kathleen after she is found dead at the bottom of a staircase in their home, and the 16-year judicial battle that followed.
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Apr 27, 2022 · HBO Max’s The Staircase, an astute scripted miniseries from The Devil All the Time filmmaker Antonio Campos that debuts May 5, is similarly wary of easy answers.
May 6, 2022 · 'The Staircase' is exploitative true crime at its best (and worst) Dunno how to feel about convicted murderer Michael Peterson getting the Colin Firth treatment. HBO Max's The...