The Roush Review

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Lies, fraud & murder: TV can’t get enough of these wayward women

YOU MAY HAVE met Pam Hupp before, on Dateline NBC, where she has been featured several times. And Elizabeth Holmes will be familiar to viewers of 20/20 and HBO (the excellent 2019 documentary The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley), among other media sources. Where would the truecrime genre be without notorious women gone wrong?

Their stories are very different, and so are the limited series dramatizing their walk on the dark side of infamy. wallows in the lurid, adopting ’s cheesy approach of milking melodrama from tragedy, down to using front man Keith Morrison as narrator. He drips buckets of smarm with every leering observation. (When Missouri hausfrau Pam drops by to help her alleged victim’s family mourn, he purrs, “Who would think such a nice lady was there to help…?”)