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Podcast: Crime Writers On...
Episode: Is True Detective back? (Plus, Gimlet's new true crime project and Sheela's big screen potential!)
Description: Lara is hopped up on chocolate-covered espresso beansâŚso hold on to your hats, people. The panel talks about Hollywoodâs plans for a dramatized retelling of the âWild Wild Countryâ story. Rebecca poses the question of whether âConvictionâ and Gimletâs other testosterone-fueled true crime offers are âa little too bro.â Then the crime writers discuss whether the sensibility and narrative certitude of true crime publishing has a place in the broken system/unsolved case popularity of modern podcasts.The group tackles the new season of HBOâs True Detective. It replicates season 1âs neo-gothic settings, stylized cinematograph...