Need-to-Know Basis: Making a Murderer, Serial, and the New True Crime

True crime used to be tawdry, on late-night network television and low-numbered basic cable channels, hidden on bookshelves in a back corner of the bookstore, featured in magazines you’d be embarrassed if your mailman saw. Now stories about Making a Murderer, the latest zeitgeist-conquering entry into the genre, are at the top of the New York Times trending list; Seth Meyers made his return from the holiday break with a parody; and tens of thousands of people have signed a petition about