Lucy Lawless Joins Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #5 on True Crime

Lucy Law­less (Xena the War­rior Princess, cur­rent­ly star­ring in My Life Is Mur­der) joins Mark Lin­sen­may­er, Eri­ca Spyres, and Bri­an Hirt to think about the true crime genre, of both the doc­u­men­tary and dra­ma­tized vari­ety. What’s the appeal? Why do women in par­tic­u­lar grav­i­tate to it?

We touch on Mak­ing of a Mur­der­er, Ser­i­al, The Stair­case, Aman­da Knox, Ted Bundy Con­ver­sa­tions with a Killer, I Love You Now Die, Mom­my Dead and Dear­est (dra­ma­tized as The Act), Amer­i­can Crime Sto­ry: The Peo­ple v. O.J. Simp­son, My Favorite Mur­der, Case­file, Crime Talk with Scott Reisch, True Mur­der, and Amer­i­can Van­dal.

Sources for this episode:

• “The Bloody His­to­ry of the True Crime Dra­ma” by Pamela Burg­er
• “What One Researcher Dis­cov­ered About America’s True Crime Obses­sion” by Sarah Watts
• “Bill James, True-Crime Obses­sive, on the Genre’s Endur­ing Impor­tance”  by Evan Hugh­es
• “The Eth­i­cal Dilem­ma of High­brow True Crime” by Alice Bolin
• “Why Do Women Love True Crime” by Kate Tut­tle

Here’s an arti­cle about Lucy’s new show and her love of the true crime genre. Watch the trail­er.

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