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Positive:
7
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7
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Critic Reviews
The GuardianOct 14, 2025
Season 1 Review:
The Murdaughs are atrocious in so many different ways, it’s difficult to maintain a useful understanding of all of them at once. However well made and performed Death in the Family is, it prompts the same question as so much other true-crime telly: why am I making myself watch?
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The TimesOct 14, 2025
Season 1 Review:
The performances are superb, especially from Clarke. .... However, fantastic characters do not make for compelling drama without jeopardy and, even if you haven’t caught the reams of commentary on the case, it would help if its destination didn’t feel quite so obvious.
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Oct 14, 2025
Season 1 Review:
Creators Michael D. Fuller and Erin Lee Carr are, instead, most interested in how the Murdaughs found themselves here to begin with — specifically, in the toxic combination of privilege and desperation that propelled them. But if their exploration of that theme is thoughtful and thorough, it’s also one that, over eight moderately watchable hours, sticks to familiar territory rather than blazing new ground.
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