Evil Genius

2018
Evil Genius

Seasons & Episodes

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EP1 Part 1: The Heist May 11, 2018

A bank robbery in Pennsylvania ends in the bombing death of a pizza deliveryman who may or may not have been a hostage forced to commit the crime.

EP2 Part 2: The Frozen Body May 11, 2018

The revelation of a corpse in a freezer near the crime scene leads police to a highly intelligent woman with mental and personality disorders.

EP3 Part 3: The Suspects May 11, 2018

Two years after the heist, one of its possible architects has died, a witness steps forward, and the prime suspect reveals too much to her cellmates.

EP4 Part 4: The Confessions May 11, 2018

As conspirators come forward, deals are made and a jury renders its verdict -- but years after the case seems solved, another witness appears.
7.5| 0h30m| TV-MA| en| More Info
Released: 11 May 2018 Ended
Producted By: Duplass Brothers Productions
Country: United States of America
Budget: 0
Revenue: 0
Official Website: https://www.netflix.com/title/80158319
Synopsis

This baffling true crime story starts with the grisly death of a pizza man who robs a bank with a bomb around his neck - and gets weirder from there.

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Marjorie Diehl-Armstrong as Self (archive footage)
Trey Borzillieri as Self - Narrator (voice)

Reviews

squirrelman Very interesting, engaging story.That said, this is a labored, labored doc. The interviews are edited in such a way that they contain the irritating irrelevant details that the best modern docs edit out. The special agent in charge of the Wells case is particularly bad; there must be 20 minutes per episode of him describing the process of submitting search warrants to a judge or telling you which doors in a house he didn't open. The narration is irritating and overly dramatic, the filmmaker thrusts his personality into the film for no apparent reason other than to get his peyote bead gold star, and frankly, I wish this show, and many, many Netflix and true crime docs, would remember to include some information in between starkly lit 20 second interview clips and transitional shots of faded photographs.Overall, these issues effect both my enjoyment of the film and my willingness to trust it. The overly sensational presentation and the obnoxious desperation to maintain a sense of suspense and mystery makes me question the doc's priorities: does it value impartiality and accuracy over entertainment value.This show betrays faults in the state of modern documentary filmmaking at some points and faults in the direction at others, ultimately creating a product that, while based on a profoundly interesting story, drowns itself in obnoxious melodrama.
paid in full Not only describes an original mystery, this documentary is also a chilling. Definitely worth watching from beginning to end as it is also a character study. Well put together and sheds light into the mind of people that are quite different, to say the least.
hauklandjohannes This miniseries would have made a great movie. As a series it feels dragged out.
ionajwhite98 Yes the story is interesting and yes four (one hour long) episodes isn't a lot but they could have done the whole story in two.I felt like I watched the same scenes numerous times, the same info was given repeatly making me feel I had already watched this episode. Honestly if your going to watch it; watch episode 1 & 4 and the story will be told the exact same. Bit of a waste of time.Also Majorie is a loud & annoying which is no fault of the documentary but I don't need to see the same scenes of her screaming a tangent repeatly throughout multiple episodes.Far too dragged on to spill the beans in the last ten minutes of episode 4...