This Netflix series is actually a parody of other Netflix true crime shows, and it's pretty damn spot-on. But to ignore it would be a huge misstep. Including American Vandal on this list might be considered cheating, since the series is 100% fictional and not actually "true" crime. It all makes for a breezy, amusing, ultimately uplifting mini-documentary. Catalan's lawyer rushes to comb through hours and hours of B-roll footage with the hopes of finding his client nestled among a huge crowd of thousands of fans. As it so happened, David and the Curb Your Enthusiasm crew were filming an episode of Curb at Dodger Stadium the night of the murder – while Catalan was there. Enter the most unlikeliest of alibis: Larry David. The only problem was, he had no concrete way to prove that. But Catalan didn't do it – he was at a Dodger's game at the time of the crime. This is also the most upbeat entry on the list, so if you're looking for true crime flavor without the crushing misery, look no further! In 2003, Los Angeles Dodgers fan Juan Catalan was arrested for the fatal shooting of a 16-year-old-girl. Long Shot is only 40 minutes long, and those minutes fly-bye.
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If you don't have time to get through a full documentary or an even longer docu-series, this is for you. By the time the series ends, you might find yourself thinking that there was no way any of this stuff happened. But for the bulk of its runtime, Wild Wild Country enthralls as we watch this entire community spring up, only to come crashing down. At 6 episodes, Wild Wild Country overstays its welcome (this story could've been told in 4 episodes, easily). Meanwhile, within the community, Sheela was slowly amassing power, and wielding it in dangerous – potentially deadly – ways. The locals did not take kindly to these outsiders, and tensions mounted. In the 1980s, Indian guru Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, his assistant Ma Anand Sheela, and a community of followers set up an entire city Oregon.
Yet at the time, the events featured in Wild Wild Country were national news (there's even a scene where Johnny Carson sings a song about them on The Tonight Show ). What makes Maclain Way and Chapman Way's Wild Wild Country so shocking is the fact you probably have never heard of the events in this film, even though they happened not very long ago (the 1980s).
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