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Murder Among the Mormons is somehow both too long and too short. It definitely could have been a 100-minute documentary, but with only three episodes one at 45-minutes at least it isn t abusively padded. Then again, at three episodes, it leaves so many unanswered questions that it surely could have been four or five episodes. This is a time-obsessed way of saying that Jared Hess (Yes, the
Napoleon Dynamite director) and Tyler Measom s examination of the 1985 bombings in Salt Lake City tackles a pretty great story one that mainstream audiences may not know at all but never quite finds the tone or focus to properly tell it.
The Bomber and Master Forger Who Tried to Destroy the Mormon Church Nick Schager
There’s no weirder twist in
Murder Among the Mormons than the initial disclosure that this Netflix true crime series (premiering March 3) is co-directed by Jared Hess, the idiosyncratic filmmaker behind
Napoleon Dynamite,
Nacho Libre, and
Gentleman Broncos. That Hess is a Mormon goes some way toward explaining this unlikely marriage of artist and material, which he helms with Tyler Measom. Yet it remains an unexpected venture for the former big-screen comedy wunderkind, who largely neuters his trademark off-the-wall comedy style for a straightforward recap of a story rooted in deception.