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OAITW r.2.0

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Thu Dec 10, 2020, 07:45 PM Dec 2020

Manhunt: Deadly Games

a 1 season series that tells the story of the Atlanta Olympic bombing and the victim Richard Jewell as well as the real perp and serial bomber, Eric Rudolph.

While I kind of knew the story, this series really illuminated the whole record of how this poor bastard Jewell was falsely tagged by the FBI when he was an actual hero of the event where his action saved maybe hundreds of lives.

It really examines the whole story, media/LEO collusion to falsely incriminate Jewell. Acting was really good and the dialog is excellent.


One thing that really surprised me was the FBI cooperation with the Regulators (a local militia in the NC wilderness (?). This was like, the anti-Waco, where they joined sides to bring this psycho to justice.

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Manhunt: Deadly Games (Original Post) OAITW r.2.0 Dec 2020 OP
Watching this now, just binged 3 epi's today... cayugafalls Dec 2020 #1
Cameron was great in his role of Richard Jewel. OAITW r.2.0 Dec 2020 #2

cayugafalls

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1. Watching this now, just binged 3 epi's today...
Thu Dec 10, 2020, 08:10 PM
Dec 2020

Very good acting. Cameron Britton playing Jewel is great as he was in Mindhunter.

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