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An Elvis Impersonator, A Presidential Assassination Attempt & Lots Of Conspiracies: Chapman & Maclain Way Unpack Netflix Docuseries ‘The Kings of Tupelo’
“The people of Tupelo, they’re fiercely abnormal, unnatural beings. They’re carnies that I could never make sense of because nothing there is… normal,” says James Everett Dutschke in Netflix docuseries The Kings of Tupelo: A Southern Crime Saga. Ten years ago, Dutschke, a karate teacher and Wayne Newton impersonator, was sentenced to 25 years in prison […]
The show, which premieres today, starts with the story of Curtis, who has his world rocked when, while working as a janitor discovers a severed head in a hospital fridge, that leads him down some conspiracy rabbit holes in a very nascent, AOL-kind of way. There are a raft of fascinating characters such as Steve Holland, the son of a judge who was set ricin letters, who served as a member of the Mississippi House of Representatives for 15 years and was also a funeral home owner accused by Curtis of selling body parts. When The Way brothers started out on this project, they discovered that a pair of seasoned scripted folk had the official rights to the story, which led to them collaborating with Greg Berlanti, the man behind The Arrowverse, and Dave Caplan, who co-developed ABC’s The Conners, as well as Warner Bros.
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