CBS AA announces new true crime series 'Interrogation', where the audience solves the murder

[Red Panda]

CBS’ digital streaming service has given a straight-to-series order to Interrogation, a true-crime drama series in which the viewer is invited to play detective. Based on a true story that spanned more than 30 years — in which a young man was charged and convicted of brutally murdering his mother — each of the episodes is structured around one interrogation taken directly from real police case files.

Akin to how the Serial podcast in 2014 had the nation casting side-eye at every Best Buy parking lot while parsing the clues offered by Sarah Koenig, Interrogation bingers can do same here, formulating their own theories. The first nine episodes will be available to watch in any order, with the conclusive season finale to be released at a later date.

https://tvline.com/2018/11/12/interrogation-true-crime-drama-mystery-viewers-solve-cbs-all-access/

I can't believe Netflix and its 1000s of true crime series hadn't done this already...

 

[Spot's Meow]

I'm intrigued! I'll definitely give it a try. I can't find a premiere date, I guess it's too early for that still.

The only thing that gives me pause is that it's based on a real murder case. The internet can get crazy when regular people are playing detective (e.g. Boston bombing suspects), but hopefully being a 30 year old case will help. It also feels a little weird to make a spectacle of someone's real life tragedy, but I guess that happens every day on the news, so is this really any different. I'm assuming they will be treating it tastefully, but we'll see.