cdeanroane Review of I'll Be Gone in the Dark

I'll Be Gone in the Dark (2020–2021)

Not a documentary on the Golden State Killer, more of an homage to Michelle McNamara

[29 June 2020]

Well this HBO documentary while it follows how the Golden State Killer. Who evolved from at the start being a bugler, then moved to becoming a rapist, and finally moved onto being a killer.. While his crimes are the thread that is holding the first episode together, You the viewer hear more about Michelle McNamara , a crime junkie/reporter/blogger. She was one of the first to realize that the East Area Rapist had evolved to now be the Original Night Starker. It was Michelle McNamara who gave him the name the Golden State Killer. We get first hand information on Michelle McNamara from her husband comedian and actor Patton Oswalt. as well others who talked and worked with Michelle McNamara . While this series deals with Golden State Killer we hear bits and pieces about his crime from police and victims. Most of episode 1 is honoring the time Michelle McNamara spent researching and writing about Golden State Killer. It is told through a narrator speaking as Michelle McNamara who got so engrossed in finding out who this killer was and writing a book about him. Michelle McNamara started taking the drugs Adderall to focus and Xanax to sleep, and eventually started using opioids. A habit nobody close to her even detected, as her friends and family thought she was just overly tired and exhausted from over working investigating and on the book trying to identify the Golden State Killer. .On April 21, 2016 it caught up with Michelle McNamara as she overdosed and died. The autopsy ruled that her death was an accidental over dose, So watch this and if the rest fo the series, but if follows the form of the first episode you will hear more about Michelle McNamara then then killer himself as Michelle McNamara died before he was identified and caught.