If you like crime dramas 'The Staircase' is a must-watch.
: none of these could plausibly be called art, and if you took away the A-listers involved you might ignore them entirely. But the combination of marquee names, auteur production, and potboiler plotting has proved irresistible. Who doesn’t want a respectable crime story to watch every week?, which shares DNA with the above: A-list cast, interesting director , a story that wraps up privilege, legal wrangling and violent death in a handsome eight-part package.
And yet as I watched the five episodes made available to critics, I found myself increasingly invested in the subtle choices Campos was making with his subject matter, in the way the new show artfully manipulates our sympathies, and especially in the way it critiques and ultimately subverts the documentary it’s based on.Plus, the cast! Colin Firth is uncanny as Peterson, mimicking his avuncular bonhomie, and hinting at the stormy temper and dangerous narcissism that lurks beneath it.