Unicorn’s The JonBenét Game dares to ask “What if true crime garbage is good, actually?”

Look, no one is more suspicious than me when a piece of media comes along that promises to challenge our societal ideas about True Crime. I came up in the stand-up comedy world alongside a few of the Big Names that would go on to make careers out of repeating Wikipedia entries about dead women as a form of entertainment. I’ve sat through every Netflix/Discovery series where the experts clearly couldn’t expert their way out of a paper bag. I’ll even show up for the Crème de la crème of the TC industry: whatever Ryan Murphy’s latest show is that both diverts so far from a true story that it becomes cartoonish exploitation while chastizing the audience for being part of the machine.

I have watched the rise and fall across mediums and decades, and have absorbed every criticism, doled it out,