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‘The Staircase’: Colin Firth breaks bad as a real-life liar, cheater and possibly killer

In this well-written HBO Max series, the good-guy actor expertly plays a duplicitous man whose discovery of his wife’s body casts suspicion on him and divides his family.

Chicago Sun-Times

Lionel Richie credits an inexplicable 'gift' for his music success

He’s one of the most famous singer-songwriters in America. But Lionel Richie says he can’t read music. The author of such hits as "Easy,” “Endless Love,” “Sail On,” and “Three Times a Lady,” can’t explain how he does it though he landed No. 1 hits on the charts for nine…

Tribune News Service

The Staircase: Lawyers in murder case argue 'aggressive owl' killed wife, not husband

Kathleen Peterson was a businesswoman and philanthropist who lived with her writer husband Michael in Durham, North Carolina, and died in mysterious circumstances in 2001. Her death is being charted on Sky Atlantic

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The Staircase: Lawyers say it was an aggressive owl and not husband that murdered woman

The Staircase killing of Kathleen Peterson has been described as the the most captivating real life true crime story you've never heard of. Her next door neighbour was convinced an owl attacked her

Daily Mirror

'The Staircase' supplements case we all know and judge

A new series on HBO Max depicts the true crime case of the 2001 murder of Kathleen Peterson, a North Carolina woman found dead at the bottom of her staircase

The Independent UK

The Staircase review: This dramatisation of the famous true crime series is unnecessary but gripping

This show ultimately adds nothing new to the story of Michael and Kathleen Peterson, but you still can’t look away

Evening Standard

The Staircase review: Colin Firth drama fails to live up to Jean-Xavier de Lestrade’s iconic documentary

This fictionalised remake of the 2004 true crime mini-series, starring Colin Firth and Toni Collette, is somehow more concrete than the original but altogether less captivating

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The Staircase review: Colin Firth drama fails to live up to Jean-Xavier de Lestrade’s iconic documentary

This fictionalised remake of the 2004 true crime mini-series, starring Colin Firth and Toni Collette, is somehow more concrete than the original but altogether less captivating

The Independent UK

The many faces of Toni Collette: Mystery thriller Pieces Of Her amid three new blockbusters

Pieces of Her is Australian actress Toni Collette's latest offering, as well as The Staircase and her role in the Oscar-nominated Nightmare Alley.

The New Daily

‘It’s the tip of the iceberg’: shining a light on the horror of wrongful convictions

In his book American Injustice, criminal defence lawyer David Rudolf looks at abuses of power and corruption that have put innocent people behind bars

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