Finally saw this since the Sup Doc podcast got around to it on today's episode (haven't heard it yet, obv.) Boy that was a watch, to put it glibly. I found myself thinking more about how it reads in an era where the police are more suspect than ever, while new hysterias rise in turn, while still noting that central awfulness in the family's experiences themselves. I gather there were attempts by Jesse to clear his name up through 2015 but maybe nothing more since. (And Seth's -- I suppose continued? -- silence has a certain...I don't know if 'dignity' is a good word or not, it seems very wrong to say that.) But also I thought about how some of those lines about their intrafamily dynamics in general remind me of things I've heard from people I know well about their own upbringings, an experience I'm glad I don't have.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 15 September 2020 00:39 (three years ago) link