“Netflix Doc On Jason Corbett Murder Is Exploitative & Offensive, But All The Other Ones Are Fine”

AS PART OF our WWN Opinions series, we give a platform to people we really shouldn’t. This week is the turn of TV critic and enjoyer of murder documentaries, Gráinne Fossey.

“While I have a voracious appetite for the salacious and exploitative true crime content Netflix puts out with greater regularity than an IBS sufferer visits the toilet, it is just plain bad taste for the streaming service to produce one about something so close to home here in Ireland that I can’t distance myself from it and must face head-on the ethics of the murder documentary industrial complex.

Endlessly binging incredibly violent and disturbing crimes is an enjoyable past time of mine and many other people, but it shouldn’t be done when it’s a case I’m already familiar with.

This makes it harder to consume it in the light and breezy fashion I watched that Dahmer documentary.

The relatives of Ted Bundy’s victims can’t really argue with the 14 separate Netflix documentaries because he’s super famous and I want to learn more depraved details but certain cases should be left alone because it’s not entertainment.

I think we can all agree that we love nothing more than to remark ‘hmmm, dunno about him/her, something fishy there, I wouldn’t have let a murderer into my life like that’ and indulge in internet comment sections conspiracy theories about innocent victims and their families and friends, however it’s nothing short of disgusting that Netflix would do this with a case involving Irish people.

The more I’m forced to think about it the closer I am to a moment of worrying moral clarity and for that, I can’t forgive Netflix. They should get back to doing true crime on non-Irish people immediately.”