Jennifer Love Hewitt's 'A Killer Among Friends' Is True-Crime at Its Trashiest

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Jennifer Love Hewitt’s true crime docuseries, Murder Among Friends , for which Hewitt produces and narrates, is a return to true crime at its trashiest. Well, maybe not trashi-est. It’s not scraping rock bottom, but it’s certainly, deep in barrel.

Maybe I’ve been spoiled by prestige true crime docs and docuseries, but there’s usually a certain level of care in how these stories are told, even if that bar doesn’t necessarily get that far off the ground. To communicate a sense of responsibility on the part of the filmmakers, that these are real and re-traumatizing stories that real people are coming forward to tell. Murder Among Friends , in the tradition of background noise TV

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