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Ill be gone in the dark12/21/2023 But the frequent text exchanges between McNamara and her husband, comedian Patton Oswalt, can feel distractingly intimate, even if they’re in service of illustrating the tragedy of a life cut much too short.īy making McNamara’s story such a major part of her account of the Golden State Killer case, Garbus is clearly experimenting with the true-crime genre and what it could be. Her voice suffuses the series, though it’s Amy Ryan who reads the stubby, ultra-direct sentences from her book. I’ll Be Gone in the Dark includes plenty of video footage of McNamara from the last years of her life, revealing a woman who’s evidently thought long and hard about her passion for cold cases - as well as one grappling with professional insecurities until her death. What should be a bingeable mystery feels too often like an indulgent slog. These two modes of the six-hour docuseries finally find a shared theme in shattered domestic peace very late in the series, but McNamara, as she’s depicted here by Garbus and her team, isn’t dynamic enough as a traditional screen “character” to hold such sustained interest. In line with the autobiographical bent of the source material, I’ll Be Gone in the Dark is as much an extended eulogy of McNamara as it is a recounting of the Golden State Killer case. ![]() ![]() But in swimming against one true-crime current, she ends up swallowed up by another: narrative bloat. Garbus is a skilled-enough filmmaker that she could’ve fit all of the above accomplishments within a two-hour feature.
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