Review: 'Based on a True Story' is a funny, clever sendup of true-crime obsession

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Review: 'Based on a True Story' is a funny, clever sendup of true-crime obsession
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Peacock's fast-paced and highly entertaining thriller pokes fun at true-crime culture, the pursuit of fame and the shallow excess of Los Angeles.

and Chris Messina), a Mar Vista couple who are struggling to make ends meet, discover the killer’s identity. Sensing a lucrative opportunity, they negotiate with the Ripper: If he’ll do a podcast with them, they won’t turn him in to the police. There’s just one caveat — he has to stop killing. But will he?

Ava, Nathan, their opportunistic cohorts — the hot plumber Matt Pierce and their vapid frenemy Ruby Gale — study the success of big moneymakers such as the “Sisters in Crime” podcast. Ava’s Post-it notes on the key elements of a blockbuster production include “creepy bumper music,” “merch” and the conscience-clearing conceit that “we’re really here for the victims.

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