I'll Be Gone in the Dark: Season 1

2020
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HBO's six-part docuseries follows true crime writer Michelle McNamara's hunt for the Golden State Killer, the man responsible for 50 home-invasion... More

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I'll Be Gone in the Dark: Season 1 is available... More to stream in New Zealand now on Neon.

I'll Be Gone in the Dark: Season 1 episodes

Episode 1.1

Murder Habit

Delving into the world of online chat rooms and crime... More blogs, writer Michelle McNamara becomes immersed in the graphic details of the Golden State Killer case, connecting with like-minded sleuths, trading facts, photos and leads. After pitching a story to Los Angeles Magazine, she hits the ground running, interviewing several EAR survivors and retired detectives who worked the case.

Episode 1.2

Reign of Terror

Michelle McNamara reflects on the 1984 murder of her childhood... More neighbor Kathy Lombardo, which she credits with planting the seed for her lifelong fascination with unsolved crimes.

Episode 1.3

Rat in a Maze

In 1979, law enforcement is thrilled when the East Area... More Rapist (EAR) attacks abruptly stop in Northern California, but in reality, EAR has moved south to commit a number of gruesome murders in the Santa Barbara area, known as the “Original Night Stalker” series.

Episode 1.4

The Motherlode

Michelle and her editors agree to push her book deadline... More after being granted access to the Orange County Sheriff’s Department’s East Area Rapist / Original Night Stalker (EAR/ONS) room. Poring over 37 boxes of files now occupying her daughter’s playroom, Michelle and her researcher Paul Haynes explore the case of the “Visalia Ransacker,” the perpetrator of a string of burglaries in the early ‘70s bearing striking similarities to EAR.

EPISODE 1.5

Monsters Recede but Never Vanish

As Michelle’s loved ones cope with her sudden death, her... More work to unmask the Golden State Killer lives on. Inspired by McNamara’s interest in genealogy and online DNA testing services, Paul Holes, Chief of Forensics in Contra Costa County, reconstructs the killer’s family tree with the help of genetic genealogist Barbara-Rae Venter.

EPISODE 1.6

Walk into the Light

As 72-year-old former police officer Joe DeAngelo’s arrest unfolds in... More real time, chilling facts materialize that illuminate Michelle’s prescience in her book’s epilogue, “Letter to an Old Man.”

EPISODE 1.7

Show Us Your Face - Bonus Episode

The victims of the Golden State Killer seek closure following... More the recent sentencing. Plus, one final boots-on-the-ground investigation brings shocking new revelations to light in the case that inspired Michelle McNamara's fascination with unsolved crimes: the murder of Kathy Lombardo.

I'll Be Gone in the Dark: Season 1 | Ratings & Reviews

"I'll Be Gone in the Dark includes plenty of video footage of McNamara from the last years of her life, revealing a woman who's evidently thought long and hard about her passion for cold cases — as well as one grappling with professional insecurities until her death."

Hollywood ReporterHollywood Reporter

"If the aspects of the story pertaining to the Golden State Killer feel, here, the stuff of formula — one imagines the ideal delivery system to be McNamara’s book — the story of McNamara herself is told with crisp elegance."

VarietyVariety

"While the individual components of I’ll Be Gone in the Dark can work to remarkable, devastating effect, the sprawl of this approach can find the two stories working against one another as often as they’re complementary."

Rolling StoneRolling Stone

"Using the classy kind of re-enactments that utilize evocative shots of important objects rather than non-union actors, Garbus shoots much of I’ll Be Gone In The Dark essentially in the first-person, putting viewers into McNamara’s sleepless, paranoid mindset. And yet, she remains an elusive character."

A.V. ClubA.V. Club

"How Garbus balances these intersecting narratives—the victims, the author, the world of true crime—is what elevates “I’ll Be Gone in the Dark,” a series that keeps its human core in a way that true crime offerings often don’t."

RogerEbert.comRogerEbert.com

"Intricate and absorbing. ... [Garbus] doesn’t waste a single minute of “I’ll Be Gone in the Dark’s” six hours. The series works as a near-perfect example of how to manage several concurrent themes, tangents and narratives at the same time, while never once failing to captivate the viewer."

The Washington PostThe Washington Post

I'll Be Gone in the Dark: Season 1 | Details

Genre
Documentary
Country of origin
USA

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