For its producers, "Boston Strangler" arrives at what arguably is an opportune time, when content based on true crime is hot.
Although the Boston Strangler murders occurred about 50 years ago, the murky story of who exactly killed several unmarried women in and around the Massachusetts city — and why — remains a fascinating if also gruesome subject.
One of the stronger 20th Century Studios films going straight to Hulu, where it debuts this week, "Boston Strangler" revisits the saga from the point of view of one of two women who covered the killings for the city's Record-American newspaper. And so while it is, in fact, another serving of true-crime-based fare, it also very much is a journalism movie — one highly interested in exploring the sexism faced by women journalists of the era. (Expect to hear derisive phrases such as "girl reporters" tossed around by male characters.)
