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Author Topic: The Staircase  (Read 1472 times)

wadesworld

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The Staircase
« on: June 17, 2018, 03:51:44 PM »
Anybody watching what is all the rage on Netflix?  I'm 7 episodes in.  I'll obviously watch the rest of it, but not sure what all the rage is about.  Pretty slow moving in my opinion.
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Re: The Staircase
« Reply #1 on: June 17, 2018, 10:20:24 PM »
About 4 episodes in.
I like it, but forget about it.
Kind of like Making a Murderer, but with white collar folk.
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Re: The Staircase
« Reply #2 on: June 22, 2018, 09:01:33 PM »
Just finished. Didn’t think it was anywhere close to worth the hype. Boring, especially the last 3 or 4 episodes.
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Re: The Staircase
« Reply #3 on: June 23, 2018, 12:33:32 AM »
Thanks for the advice, Wades. I was planning on watching it but I think it heads to the bottom of the list now.

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Re: The Staircase
« Reply #4 on: June 23, 2018, 04:58:28 AM »
Watched a couple episodes at a time over a few week period.

I guess anything "real" is boring these days, because it was about as wild of a story as it gets.

After watching the last episode, pretty sure I still don't like the guy (!), but that really played a back seat IMO compared to the unique nature of it and the time passage, as well as other various elements (injustices, revelations). I won't get any deeper to avoid spoiling it.

To keep things interesting, you could instead watch the new marijuana cooking show, then do some "cooking", and then watch Yu-Gi-Oh. Or whichever order you like.

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Re: The Staircase
« Reply #5 on: June 23, 2018, 06:51:32 AM »
Watched a couple episodes at a time over a few week period.

I guess anything "real" is boring these days, because it was about as wild of a story as it gets.

After watching the last episode, pretty sure I still don't like the guy (!), but that really played a back seat IMO compared to the unique nature of it and the time passage, as well as other various elements (injustices, revelations). I won't get any deeper to avoid spoiling it.

To keep things interesting, you could instead watch the new marijuana cooking show, then do some "cooking", and then watch Yu-Gi-Oh. Or whichever order you like.

You could just Google the case, read a couple articles in a half hour, and have every bit of the interesting information from the documentary you need without sitting through 13 hours of boring, slow interviews.

It’s an interesting story. The documentary was not an interesting watch.

Compared to Making a Murderer where the story and the documentary were both very interesting.
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Re: The Staircase
« Reply #6 on: June 23, 2018, 03:15:48 PM »
You could just Google the case, read a couple articles in a half hour, and have every bit of the interesting information from the documentary you need without sitting through 13 hours of boring, slow interviews.

It’s an interesting story. The documentary was not an interesting watch.

Compared to Making a Murderer where the story and the documentary were both very interesting.

I think the assumption here is that someone watching (or deciding to watch) either documentary series likely knows nothing about them beforehand.

Obviously, Making a Murderer will be a significantly more interesting watch for those that live in WI or have a lot of history there. Though I'd imagine if you're from that exact area (Manitowoc/Sheboygan/GB/etc) and are old enough, you probably caught a bunch of it on the local news.