Netflix’s true-crime documentaries have a recognizable sheen to them—the streamer even released a comedy series mocking its take on the genre. Yet its latest hit, The Perfect Neighbor, takes a different tack. Unlike the average true-crime doc, the film doesn’t rely on soapy reenactments and first-person accounts to piece together its story: a Black woman’s murder by her white neighbor in 2023, which rocked a tight-knit Florida community. Instead, it leans on primary-source material culled from body cameras and interrogation rooms. The unvarnished approach stands out among the flashier titles in Netflix’s catalog—so much so that it became fodder for a Saturday Night Live spoof last night. Using that same device, it probed a different, more mundane topic: the division of household labor.

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