Recently, true crime documentaries are on the television spotlight, shifting from a typical documentary into glamorous narrative filmmaking. HBO Max couldn’t miss the trend; it recently launched a true-crime documentary series, The Staircase, in the most fascinating way possible.
The film is a captivating rework of Jean Xavier’s (a French filmmaker) documentary The Staircase, concerning Michael Peterson’s case of 2004. It investigates Peterson’s life, his straggling family in North Carolina, and his wife, Kathleen.