Lisa and I recently watched this Hulu original, and we were both pleasantly surprised by the quality of what we thought, wrongly, would be a sensationalist rehash of the killings.
Instead, we found a film primarily concerned with two real-life Boston reporters, Loretta McLaughlin, (played by Keira Knightly), and Jean Cole (Carrie Coon) who overcome the sexist structure of early '60's journalism and became the first to identify that a serial killer was on the loose in Boston.
The film, just like the real life case, leaves you with questions. Was it really the work of one man, or multiple killers, including those who killed for personal reasons and disguised it as the work of the Strangler? Cole and McLaughlin believed in the latter, and again had to fight the system to get their belief in print.
Don't go thinking this was dull or preachy: it has plenty of twists and chills, it just doesn't rely on them alone to drive the story.
I very much think it's worth a watch.
Grade: B+
