That's how many episodes Netflix has of Bad Vegan and Escaping Twin Flames and Bad Surgeon. The three-episode docuseries is a standard format by now, particularly on Netflix. The result is far more satisfying and substantial. It's a bit of a salutary bait-and-switch, seeming like another true-crime story, but really taking this case and using it as only one example of much broader problems. ![]() The bulk of the first installment is spent on the history of segregation and racism in Boston, with particular focus on the ugly protests against busing as a way to desegregate public schools. Instead, it wisely focuses not on the murder itself, but on the police investigation, both its origins and the deep scars it left. There is an obvious way this series could have gone: exacting detail on the Stuarts, their families, how beautiful Carol was, how it all went wrong - on other words, on Charles' decision to kill her and his brother's decision to turn him in. Charles Stuart identified him as the - as it turns out - fictional murderer, then took his own life shortly after his brother gave him up to the police. In the intervening months, a manhunt had resulted in the police stopping, searching and harassing large numbers of Black men in Boston, one of whom they even arrested. By January, Charles' brother confessed that he had assisted Charles in murdering his wife and that Charles' own injury was essentially a misdirect the carjacker never existed. She died, as did the baby she was carrying. ![]() ![]() The murder was originally reported by her husband, Charles, as a carjacking by a Black assailant in which they had both been shot. Directed by Jason Hehir (who made The Last Dance), it's about the October 1989 murder of Carol Stuart. Monday night, HBO aired the first of three installments in its documentary series Murder in Boston: Roots, Rage & Reckoning. But it wisely focuses not on the murder itself, but on the police investigation - both its origins and the deep scars it left. Murder in Boston is a three-part docuseries about the 1989 murder of Carol Stuart by her husband Charles Stuart.
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