The voyeuristic ‘American Murder: The Family Next Door’ gets uncomfortably close to its subjects

A review of the new true crime documentary, on Netflix 9/30

Eric Langberg
Everything’s Interesting
8 min readSep 24, 2020

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For the last couple of years, I’ve been very interested in the evolution of Netflix’s true-crime brand, specifically in the increasing discomfort with the ethics of the genre that a lot of Netflix…

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Eric Langberg
Everything’s Interesting

Interests: bad horror movies, queering mainstream films, Classic Hollywood.