‘Based on a True Story’
After the debut of Zac Efron’s Ted Bundy film, Ryan Murphy’s Jeffrey Dahmer miniseries, the reboot of Unsolved Mysteries and the dozens of other true crime releases that have dropped in just the last few months, we really needed a palate cleanser to wipe away all that blood and gore. Enter Based on a True Story. The Peacock series, while heavy on the blood and kills, skewers all other tropes our Dateline-obsessed culture with a sharp and funny satire. Kaley Cuoco and Chris Messina star as a down-on-their-luck couple trying to make some extra cash ahead of the birth of their first child by collaborating with a serial killer on a podcast. Just how to do they pull it off? Well, you’ll have to watch and see.