American Vandal

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Society & Culture, True Crime, Author, Panel, Writer, Review, Tv Reviews, Crime, Documentary, Tv & Film

4.4 • 3.6K Ratings

🗓️ 29 November 2021

⏱️ 25 minutes

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In this week's CWO Classic rewind: a look back at the Sept 29, 2017 review of the Netflix comedy "American Vandal." The unexpectedly savvy satire of everything we love about true crime. "American Vandal" may start as a lowbrow take-off on "Serial" or "Making a Murder," but the comedy is surprisingly meta, embracing all tropes of the podcasts and documentaries which have become ubiquitous. In the end, we still want to know, "Who drew the dicks?" Click here to get the Crime Writers On After Show, plus more exclusive content, on Patreon.: https://patreon.com/partnersincrimemedia

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0:00.0	To get the Crime Writers on After Show right now, go to Patreon.
0:03.6	Dot com slash Partners in Crime Media.
0:06.1	I'm Rebecca Lervoy and this is the original True Crime Review
0:25.6	podcast that digs in a true crime, pop culture, other podcasts, and this
0:29.9	week a Crime Writers on Classic Rewind, when all of the country wanted to know who drew the Dix.
0:38.0	We'll talk about the groundbreaking true crime satire from, American Vandal.
0:44.1	Joining me to get that done and more is true crime author, TV journalist,
0:48.0	and host of the These Are Their Stories Podcast,
0:50.6	My Husband and Love of My life, Kevin Flynn. Hello,
0:53.4	Rebecca.
0:54.4	Kevin, remind us about when this review first came out.
0:58.3	I close your eyes and head back to the wonderful month of September 2017.
1:04.0	Nobody had to wear masks or get shots.
1:07.0	You sneezed, we didn't run away.
1:09.0	Didn't run away.
1:10.0	Democracy was well in place.
1:13.0	Was it?
1:14.0	We were worried.
1:16.0	It might not be, but it was.
1:18.0	So yeah, this came out on Netflix 8-part series, American Vandal. As you might recall, it was a satire of all kinds of true
1:27.3	crime documentaries. It involved a story of some high schoolers investigating the crime of vandalism where somebody drew Dix all over the cars in the parking lot.
1:40.0	Do you remember how many Dix?
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