A story is nothing without vivid characters, and the new HBO documentary has "the goods":
*Wayne Williams, gifted child in a "respectable home," who may have (may have) grown up to murder several kids in Atlanta.
*Atlanta itself, eager to seem above America's racial tensions ("a city too busy to hate"), and also guilty of lying, on several fronts.
*The outspoken mom-of-victim (like Mari Gilbert, but from an earlier era), boldly correcting privileged Tom Brokaw on the air, when Brokaw seems unable/unwilling to do some basic research on the story he is reporting.
I really liked (weird verb here) the first hour. I'm curious to see Part II......
https://www.hbo.com/atlantas-missing-and-murdered-the-lost-children
*Wayne Williams, gifted child in a "respectable home," who may have (may have) grown up to murder several kids in Atlanta.
*Atlanta itself, eager to seem above America's racial tensions ("a city too busy to hate"), and also guilty of lying, on several fronts.
*The outspoken mom-of-victim (like Mari Gilbert, but from an earlier era), boldly correcting privileged Tom Brokaw on the air, when Brokaw seems unable/unwilling to do some basic research on the story he is reporting.
I really liked (weird verb here) the first hour. I'm curious to see Part II......
https://www.hbo.com/atlantas-missing-and-murdered-the-lost-children
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