In 2015, HBO’s Emmy-winning documentary series, “The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst” took the documentary world by storm, helping popularize the true-crime streaming obsession—additionally fueled by Netflix’s “Making a Murderer” also released the same year— which took off soon after.

The series was a global phenomenon centered on the unsolved crimes that revolved around New York real estate heir Robert Durst.

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April is a big month for new releases, with some major titles hitting streaming platforms as spring arrives. Andrew Scott helms a new, highly-anticipated drama for Netflix, while Colin Farrel makes one of two 2024 TV appearances with “Sugar” on Apple TV+ (the other being “The Penguin” coming in the fall). There’s the latest video game adaptation that, like “The Last of Us,” attempts to nail the original tone while delivering why the adaptation is worthwhile.

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Nine years ago, “The Jinx” took HBO by storm, receiving rave reviews, five Emmy nods, and winning two, including Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Series. And the show also led to the arrest of its primary subject, Robert Durst, for first-degree murder the day before the premiere of its series finale. It was fitting retribution for Durst, a man arrogant enough to sit down for interviews with a filmmaker who based his 2010 film “All Good Things” on the murders Durst got away with for decades.

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