Around a month ago, I broke a longstanding promise to myself to never again binge-watch true crime shows – the result of an intense Netflix spiral that began in a Colombian hairdressers (the first season of the docudrama Monster, depicting the life of serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer, was the salon’s chosen entertainment) and ended in the confines of a dark bedroom, with the realisation that I might not want to spend a year abroad inside the minds of murderers and criminals.
This time around, a bad cold, a dreary English autumn day and a bout of the blues made me particularly susceptible to the glitzy allure of a new three-part documentary series. Originally a podcast, Netflix’s Sweet Bobby tells the story of an elaborate catfishing scheme that upends a woman’s life for eight years. If you’re looking to get lost in someone else’s unbelievably bonkers drama in order to forget your own, then this is the show.
