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The Jinx: Part Two Ignores the Full Story
You can’t complete the Robert Durst saga without reckoning with the phenomenon the original doc wrought.
This was no ordinary watch party; held in the upstate New York home of director Andrew Jarecki, who created the series with Zac Stuart-Pontier and Marc Smerling, the screening brought together a wide array of people intimately affected by Durst’s crimes. We see evidence of its influence in the sequel but mostly in a self-congratulatory manner: The opening episode plays footage of billboards promoting The Jinx in 2015 and clips of television programs discussing its revelations; members of the justice system, here in the present, process the significance of the phenomenon. But the turn feels tacked on, a trite observation: We’ve been living in a world awash with “rich people behaving badly” pop culture for several years now, so it’s especially hard for The Jinx to extend that argument.
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