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Critic Reviews
May 22, 2017
Season 1 Review:
What makes that bigger picture so maddeningly compelling is the way The Keepers explores a pathology of abuse and its effect on victims, chronicles the strange inescapability of trauma, reflects on how society treats the word of women, and reveals the shattering reality that justice can feel so empty.
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May 18, 2017
Season 1 Review:
The Keepers is much more sophisticated and well-researched [than “Making a Murderer”], offering several different probabilities throughout its seven episodes as to what happened to Sister Cathy. It also aims to solve a murder rather than set a convicted murderer free. It’s executed with empathy, but not to the point where The Keepers lets a foregone conclusion drive the narrative.
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May 19, 2017
Season 1 Review:
Mostly these are jaw-dropping tales about horrific things that happened a long time ago, limiting the urgency of the narrative. ... In that way, The Keepers is more of a meditation on memory and truth than a murder mystery, and the telling of the tale is a resolution in itself.
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IndieWireMay 15, 2017
Season 1 Review:
Its blend of color-tinted recreations, on-camera interviews, and archival photographs may not reinvent the format, but The Keepers understands that one crime does not exist in a vacuum. By acknowledging and documenting the environment that could lead to a brutal murder, the seven-part series says more about the power in being able to tell your own story.
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May 19, 2017
Season 1 Review:
White's devotion to the case is apparent, but The Keepers seems like an instance where a less-expansive canvas -- and the concentrated approach that would have required -- would have been more beneficial than the latitude to venture down every corridor, even when they might lead to a dead end.
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