We already know the opening scene of a Netflix murder documentary: an empty seat, a person walks in seemingly mid-set-up, then they say something about how their hometown was once close-knit. Debates have raged on about turning tragedies into entertainment for years and now a school in Ohio has become the first institution to put its foot down.
Netflix is still licking its wounds from a failed merger with Warner Bros. and now isn’t the time to think about changing the formula in one of its biggest sources of streams. The latest Netflix documentary is called The Crash and focuses on a murder case in Ohio, which followed a juvenile who was tried as an adult for aggravated vehicular homicide.