Erin Lee Carr has had a busy year, but I Love You, Now Die: The Commonwealth vs. Michelle Carter proves she's not too busy for nuance. The two-part documentary film, airing this week on HBO, looks at both sides of Conrad Roy III's tragic death, acknowledges the human instinct to find someone to blame, and takes us back to our own gusty teenage girlhoods. "Enjoyable" isn't the right word, but it's evocative for sure.
Paul Schrader's late-eighties look at Patty Hearst and the SLA is less so, but we're not sure if that's down to a certain failure of nerve on the script's part, or the fact that we've just consumed too much Hearst-iana at this late date for any biopic to move the ball. Good performances don't save what is, here in 2019, a superfluous narrative -- but WE might save you some time/room on your watch list in The Blotter Presents, Episode 103.
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SHOW NOTES
Special Guest: Eve Batey.
Closing Statements
155: Most Wanted and While The City Sleeps
154: Surviving Jeffrey Epstein and The Con
Wondery Presents Even The Rich: The House of Versace
153: Ann Rule's Sleeping With Danger and The Last Narc
152: Fear City: New York vs. The Mafia and The Perfect Murder S05E09
151: The Business Of Drugs and Summer Of Sam
150: Athlete A and American Greed S13.E06
149: I'll Be Gone In The Dark and Murder Made Me Famous
148: Miracle Fishing and Exhibit A
147: Belly Of The Beast, Coded Bias, and the Yasmin Neal interview
146: Dirty John: The Betty Broderick Story and Woman On Trial: The Lawrencia Bembenek Story
145: Quiz and No Stone Unturned
Blotter Brief 43: Reed Redmond on Mobbed Up
144: Fake Heiress and Unsolved Mysteries S03.E10
143: A Confession and Let Him Have It
142: Stolen Babies and The Phoebe Judge Interview
141: Bad Education and Frontline's "Terror In Little Saigon"
140: True History Of The Kelly Gang and Catch & Kill
138: A Thread Of Deceit: The Hart Family Tragedy and American Animals
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