128: True Life Crime and Love After Lockup

Piper Weiss and I waded into basic cable's accidental anthropology this week, starting with MTV's new extension of a heritage non-fiction show, True Life Crime. It's got potential, and we'll keep watching, but we couldn't help wondering if the network was giving a lot of Dateline-y notes -- and if the show in its original inception involved a lot more of the late Zachary Stoner.

Later, we looked at Love/Life After Lockup, and questioned WEtv's intentions. Is it trying to make an acerbic comment on the American incarceration industrial complex, or the unintended consequences of mandatory sentencing and the opioid crisis? Or that a coincidence arising from the filming of various figurative emotional trainwrecks? Either way, we're voting B for president in The Blotter Presents, Episode 128.

[Content warning: this episode addresses child sexual abuse, domestic violence, and suicide. Please listen with care.]

SHOW NOTES

• True Life Crime
• William Lee from the Trib: the Kenneka Jenkins case was "never a murder mystery"
• Life After Lockup
• LAL's Lacey implies that husband Shane has gotten violent with her
• Piper on Twitter
• Best Evidence: bestevidence.fyi
• And of course my sponsor, Feals!