HBO’s 8-Part Miniseries Masterpiece Finally Hits Netflix and the True Crime Case Still Doesn’t Make Sense

True crime has always had a tight grip on pop culture , but one case was so confounding that it was covered twice. The horrifying events surrounding political candidate and author Michael Peterson were first explored in the controversial 2004 documentary , The Staircase . These events were revisited in 2022 with the true crime television series of the same name. Premiering on HBO, The Staircase stars Colin Firth in a story that still inspires much debate. Now, as it hits Netflix , viewers have another chance to untangle the confounding details of the case in the brutal series.

Firth is haunting in the series as Peterson, a successful author who one night frantically calls 911 after discovering his wife Kathleen ( Toni Collette ) bleeding at the bottom of the stairca