Night Stalker review: This true crime series is neither tasteful nor compelling

By Louis Chilton

 

 

There is an unspoken balancing act between good taste and good television.

 

It takes place within every new entry in the vogueish true crime genre, the most lurid and heinous acts an obvious fit for the framework of pop entertainment.

 

Shows such as Making a Murderer or Conversations with a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes have been huge hits for Netflix, exhuming old crimes and reconstructing them with a methodical storyteller’s flair. Night Stalker: The Hunt for a Serial Killer arrives today on Netflix bearing all the hallmarks of a modern true crime sensation – but makes for neither tasteful nor particularly compelling viewing.

 

The “Night Stalker” was the name given by contemporary news outlets to Richard Ramirez, a Texan man who carried out a spree of murders, sexual assaults and burglaries in California in the mid-1980s.

 

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loved the night stalker series from the 70s