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Critic Reviews
Season 1 Review:
Burden of Proof offers a different way to do true crime storytelling, emphasizing the toll that uncertainty takes on those experiencing it in the wake of an unsolved disappearance. It offers no easy answers to the kidnapping of Jennifer Pandos nor the strife left behind in her absence. But it uses that lack of conviction as a compelling plea for compassion.
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RogerEbert.comJun 6, 2023
Season 1 Review:
True crime documentaries can be manipulative in how they withhold information, but Hill threads that needle just enough to make us feel as exhausted by this case as Stephen. She also clearly earns Stephen’s trust, and we come to share her obvious compassion for him.
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Season 1 Review:
Their [Stephen Pandos and Cynthia Hill's] tunnel vision results in an airless series, one that isolates the Pandos case from its sociological, psychological, and criminal-justice contexts, which are bound up in generational trauma and the patterns of domestic abuse. Exploring those contexts—even acknowledging them—might have made “Burden of Proof” into more than an overlong, inconclusive whodunnit.
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