The Staircase
The Staircase
TV-MA | 07 October 2004 (USA)
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    NikkiHassinger

    This was completely a biased tale of a bizarre man that ultimately is painstakingly unsatisfying. The editing is atrocious and could have been trimmed at least by half and knowing that he had a 15 year relationship with the films editor completely discredits this film among many other things.

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    jerkassstore

    I agree with a couple of reviews below. Firstly, this thing is dragged out. Secondly, I guess it was made in partnership, in some way, with the defense so really focuses on Peterson's side of the story without really giving a fair focus on the prosecution's side. Peterson did also come across to me as, not only a narcissist, but a raging sociopath. The defense is pretty flimsy. I mean, really how in the hell could a human gush so much blood from falling down some stairs? Has that ever happened in history? The defense makes a point that in a blunt trauma beating there is always some kind of fracture or whatever. Who cares!? Maybe Peterson didn't cause blunt trauma with the blow poke. He could've used a raking motion or something to cause lacerations. Stuff like that isn't explained and I don't understand why. My feelings is that the prosecution didn't have quite enough evidence to convict Peterson without a reasonable doubt but at the same time the defense IS pretty flimsy.In any case we're dealing with raging sociopaths, motivated probably by money. Once the victim found out her husband was banging gay guys, most likely some kind of monetary consequence was revealed, divorce or whatnot. While at the same time we have idiotic prosecutors with their lying and evidence tampering to prosecute Peterson at any cost. But really, who's kidding who. He did it. Peterson's guilty. Period. I mean, maybe he didn't do it. Maybe it was a ghost, right? There's no way in hell all that blood was caused by a stair fall. No way.

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    djones1313

    From the opening scene where he is explaining what happens that night, you can tell the MF is lying. He is a terrible liar. Goes into way too much detail about unimportant stuff to try and 'convince' you he is telling the truth. His body language/tone and speed of his voice both in his interviews, and on the 911 call are dead giveaways to me. If you think this guy is telling the truth, or believe an owl came in the house and murdered his wife, you are a gullible freaking idiot.Watched most of the 1st episode before I had to turn it off. It was so biased for the defense, as they interview his family who say "Before we even saw or heard what happened, we believed our dad". Then to find out one of the people who made this "documentary" had a relationship with the guy? Doesn't surprise me at all. LMAO wake up people.Saw another review on here that said it is an extraordinary story about relationships and emotion. LOL how about the story of a psychopath-sociopath who murdered his wife in cold blood you moron!Can't believe anyone was actually able to make it through the whole series.

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    guinnesswrig

    This was a great and fascinating look into a high profile murder case.. It is heavily flawed, however, by the fact that they were trying to portray Mr. Peterson as a poor innocent victim that was targeted unfairly by the judicial system. It just goes to show, the state is under the burden of proving guilt by means of perfect, flawless investigations, and flawless means of testing every piece of evidence. I'm all for people getting a fair trial but where does common sense come in? There's no doubt that this guy is a multi-murderer and he is certainly not the perfect father that his poor children try to portray. I'm sorry, but if anyone actually thinks this guy is innocent... Wow

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