Welcome to You Can't Make This Up, a companion podcast for Netflix original true crime stories.

I'm Rebecca Lervoy, your host. Each episode we take a close up look at a true crime documentary, narrative, or series, and I talk to the people who made them.

We dive deep into the backstories and get answers to questions raised by what we just watched.

This week, we're sharing our year and

review episode with you where we take a look back at highlights from 2020 on

you can't make this up. Now I don't need to tell you the kind of changes 2020 brought for most

of us but I will say is that for me streaming TV remained a constant in my life as a much needed means of escape during quarantine.

And Netflix continued throughout the entire year to premiere story after story that helped me stay engaged and stay sane.

Taking stock of the platform's true crime offerings,

criminal justice fans like me, well, we weren't disappointed.

Netflix filmmakers and documentarians consistently delivered on original content that

both intrigued and surprised.

Above all, they forced viewers to take a second look at crimes that we thought we knew all about from news

reports and pop culture. Take the Italian mafia for example. As someone from New York who grew up on Long Island in the 80s,

I have become extremely fatigued with the many sensational,

highly acclaimed art and film projects that glorify the mob.

We've known these stories from films like The Godfather

and Goodfellas and The Departed

and heard them mostly from the point of view

of incredibly charming and charismatic wise guys that often sound more

like Joe Peshy than Joe Peshy himself.

We party constantly.

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