It was crazy and, I'd think, incredibly unique that the same judge was on the bench throughout this entire ordeal. Interesting to see him age as well.

That last interview with him was QUITE telling, and that's from a guy who DID hear all the evidence.

I'm not sure how she was beaten unconscious if there was no fracture or brain bruising from that blowpoke, plus that there was no blood really on the ceiling from her being beaten...so how'd she get knocked out?

I wonder why they never mentioned the possibilty of him having pushed her down the stairs.

Just finished watching this series.

1) Have you ever watched a movie set in the Deep South and the characters are so laughably cliche that you think that there is no way anybody exists and acts like that in real life? Yeah, well apparently they do exist and they worked in the Durham, NC DA's office in the early 2000's. The lead DA and his assistant were such caricatures of hokey, backwoods, incompetent bigots, and they just got worse as the trial progressed. Whatever law school they graduated from should be embarrased they issued them degrees.

2) The entire SBI of North Carolina should be burned to the ground and completely rebuilt, not just the lead expert in this case, Dever. And the fact he wasn't prosecuted for the blatant misconduct he practiced in so many cases just shows how screwed up the justice system can be.

That being said,

3) I don't think Peterson was innocent. I don't believe in coincidences. Two women, both deeply involved with him, dead at the bottom of a staircases, all the secrets and lies in his life...yeah, he killed them both.

4) He absolutely was having an affair with the "friend" in Germany, and at least one of the daughters is his.

5) I don't believe for a second that his wife knew about his bisexuality and hookups with escorts the entire time and was perfectly fine with it. I think her finding out likely was what lead to her demise.

6) I don't believe much of anything that comes out of Peterson's mouth. Everything he said and did came across as extremely contrived. It felt like he was constantly "acting"...giving deep, grandiose statements all the time...holding the end of his glasses in his mouth while looking out his window deep in thought...puffing on a pipe while listening to his favorite classical music. Watch Peterson when his attorney first tells him about the accusations of a hookup by the male escort (proven true by the emails)...he shows all the signs of a guilty person caught trying to deny it...the exaggerated facial expressions and amazement and exclamations of how ridiculous the claims are, yet never once actually denying them.

7) The two daughters annoyed me, especially the older one. I know it could have just been the editing of the film, but it sure seemed like the actual death of the mother was almost an afterthought. Like Peterson was the only thing worth considering and their actual dead mother figure was just an abstract afterthought that's causing their dad all this trouble. I get loving your parent, but never once considering all of the lies and "coincidences" throughout Peterson's life and the weak story of her falling down the stairs as the cause of her death? Kind of weird in my opinion.

Anyway, a ****ed up situation all around and another good docuseries on Netflix.