| MGM+ | Season Premiere Date: July 26, 2020 |
Summary:
The six-part docuseries directed by Lesley Chilcott features archival footage, photos as well as interviews with journalists and former members of the Manson Family.
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Movie/Mini-Series, Documentary
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Jul 29, 2020
Movie Nation
Jul 30, 2020
Epix has a series (Sunday nights through August) that makes a fine companion piece to Tarantino’s tale of the end of one era and “the coming darkness” of another, “Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood.” It’s a good primer on the time, the crime and the criminals that Quentin Tarantino liked to imagine “Old Hollywood” could vanquish, like the villains in the third act of a TV Western.
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Jul 24, 2020
Her own strategy is fresh, if exhaustive. ... What Ms. Chilcott intends, and achieves, is a careful, meticulous assembling of background that sidesteps the sensationalism that usually attaches itself to the case and gets in the way of what it all was and how it happened. And maybe even why.
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Jul 24, 2020
TV Guide Magazine
Jun 11, 2020
The cumulative effect of the exhaustively researched six-part Helter Skelter douseries is numbing, more miss than myth. ... Obsessives might dig it, but others will see it as overkill. [8 - 21 Jun 2020, p.5]
Jul 23, 2020
An American Myth might’ve worked better as a leaner, more daring essay film. The premiere contains quite a bit of material that’s recycled in later episodes, to the extent that it feels like an hour-long trailer. More frustrating is that in avoiding voice-over narration, Chilcott makes her point through interviews that can contradict one another.
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Jul 24, 2020
After decades of coverage devoted to the Manson family, anything new on the topic must clear a high bar. Other than having time to flesh out the subject matter, the six-part Epix documentary "Helter Skelter: An American Myth" falls short of its promotional promise to "upend what people think they know" and cast the story in "an entirely new light."
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Aug 18, 2020
What hot garbage. Its as if the makers are trying to justify Manson as sine sort of prophet, when all he was was a failed pimp and pop star. No concern whatsoever for the victims here. The mist cringey thing is the women talking about The Family wistfully..."good times...good times." Utter scum.
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