• Network: HBO
  • Series Premiere Date: Nov 15, 2020
User Score
5.8

Mixed or average reviews- based on 9 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5 out of 9
  2. Negative: 3 out of 9

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  1. Dec 26, 2020
    3
    should pare back to 30 min. it's just a story of self-serving sociopaths. probably including the documenter and in the end nothing is resolved.
Metascore
76

Generally favorable reviews - based on 7 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 7 out of 7
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 7
  3. Negative: 0 out of 7
  1. Reviewed by: Tom Long
    Nov 30, 2020
    75
    Madison, a conflicted yet driven narrator-as-victim, makes this a unique piece of true crime filmmaking. He captures the messy darkness that can hide behind seemingly shiny lives. Including his own.
  2. Reviewed by: Kayla Cobb
    Nov 16, 2020
    80
    Watching Murder on Middle Beach often feels like spying on Hamburg’s most private therapy sessions. This is thanks to Hamburg’s deeply intimate filmmaking style that refuses to turn off the camera even when he’s at his lowest moments. ... Altogether that’s where Murder on Middle Beach excels, in its intimacy.
  3. Reviewed by: Daniel Fienberg
    Nov 16, 2020
    80
    The Serial-style mystery rarely comes together in as traditionally satisfying a whodunit way as you might hope for, and the autobiographical elements absolutely feel protracted, but the way the series gels is as the latest meta examination of why we're attracted to true crime in all its forms. ... It's an intellectual coping mechanism and an emotional healing process come to life over four parts, as exposed and ungainly and raw and hopeful as that implies.