- Network: Netflix
- Series Premiere Date: Apr 20, 2022
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As an example of the well-worn genre of true-crime docs, it's decently well-structured, moves fast at a mere three hours(!), and accurately pins down the societal ills that Gacy's predation highlighted.
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‘Conversations’ is both competently made and very bingeable — two traits that Netflix is surely happy with — but it also is becoming harder to differentiate Berlinger’s work from an episode of “Forensic Files.”
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There's not much that's really new here, with Peacock's "John Wayne Gacy: Devil in Disguise" having covered similar territory just last year. But Netflix provides both a wider platform, and the project comes with a somewhat more contemporary hook amid ongoing efforts continue to identify Gacy's victims, some of whom remain unknown.
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If you’re from Chicago, or have lived here for any significant length of time, the three-part Netflix documentary “Conversations with a Killer: The John Wayne Gacy Tapes” is little more than a repackaging of the well-known, if disturbing, story of this serial killer. For anyone else. ... Director Joe Berlinger’s series is as decent a retelling as any.