How Netflix created its golden age of true-crime documentary series

Rolling Stone

Docuseries from Making a Murderer to Evil Genius to Wild Wild Country owe a debt to The Staircase, which aired on Sundance Channel in 2005. Jean Xavier de Lestrade's docuseries on Michael Peterson was the "the Rosetta stone of modern multi-part crime explorations." ALSO: Nxivm and Wild Wild Country have boosted interested in cult programming.