Ted Sarandos, chief content officer at Netflix, hinted of a follow up at the Television Critics Association press tour in California Sunday, but said nothing is formally underway.
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An ardent supporter of Avery’s on “Making a Murder”, Stachowski now says that she believes her former fiance is guilty of murdering Teresa Halbach, an Auto Trader magazine photographer last seen alive on the Avery property.
The story is still unfolding, so we’ll certainly take a look at it …
Overall, the filmmakers say that they did not set out to convince anyone of Avery’s guilt or innocence, merely to examine the criminal justice system. What we set out to do here was to question, essentially check up on the American criminal justice system.
Avery recently filed an appeal in the case and hired Chicago lawyer Kathleen Zellner onto his defense team.
Consider yourself warned: There could be some spoilers here if you haven’t yet watched all of Netflix’s “Making a Murderer”. “If there’s something that’s meaningful [as the story continues to develop], I can’t imagine two people that are more appropriate and equipped to follow and tell this story”.
Demos and Ricciardi have still been gathering material for a possible second season, although “significant developments” in the case would need to arise before production starts.
“Of course we left out evidence, there would have been no other way to do it”, Riccardi said.
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During the half-hour panel organised by Netflix, Ms Riccardi said: “Steven does not have access to the series…”
Speaking in an exclusive interview with the Hollywood Reporter, Sandaros confirmed that “There’s no idea for a second season, there’s no pitch for a second season; we’re not talking about a second season”. She said that they took their clues regarding what is the most incriminating evidence from their prosecution.
However, Avery himself has not been given a chance to see it because a request to view it in jail has been denied.
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The directors of the highly popular Making a Murderer series have defended their controversial documentary, claiming the pieces of evidence they left out weren’t significant.
