If you're following the murder trial of Alex Murdaugh in South Carolina, you've already got a hint of what this docuseries is about. I wasn't following the trial and had no idea what to expect since I was completely in the dark on this one.
What I came away with is:
- Fraud and Corruption
- Dark family history of fraud and corruption
- Fraud and Corruption
- Dark family history of potential murder to fully exploit perpetuated fraud
- Murder, Murder, Murder
- And a bunch of other stuff hinted at but not really explored
In short, it's a fucked up family that's been allowed to wield way too much power and influence. This pretty much happens everywhere where families have been entrenched for a long time. I'm not saying murder and fraud to this level are always involved. But if you've lived somewhere long enough, you start to get the feel of the families that have the most influence and, somehow, someone in their family always seems to get away with murder.
What's different about this one is the spoiled kid who was going to get away with murder might have been murdered by his own dad.
Yeah, fucked up.
What I didn't get and what isn't really explored is why the dad may be going out of his way to protect an older brother who also may have been involved in a different murder but was so willing to kill the youngest son and his wife. The motive doesn't add up, at least how it's presented in this series.
The younger son may have committed drunken boating manslaughter and may have helped cover up the "accident" of another person for insurance money. The older son was being pointed at for potential involvement in beating a gay schoolmate to death. The latter seems way worse, all things considered. Why protect him but murder the other? Not defending murder. But we're supposed to believe the dad decided in an opioid haze that the younger son and wife had to die to protect himself?
In short, the series doesn't do a very good job connecting things. It does do a good job presenting all the misdeeds this family may be tied to.
That being said, it's interesting. If there were some occult aspects introduced, it'd be like a non-fiction True Detective season.
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