Wer hat den kleinen Grégory getötet?

A brilliant and breathtaking reconstitution of a multifaceted investigation, an allegorical epic on media and justice, secrets and lies, ambitions and misfortunes, community and individualism, violence and envy. All through highly fanciful, quixotic and controversial real-life characters. This documentary series is one of the best Netflix has ever produced.

I listen to French news radio and heard a lot of coverage of this decades-old crime when the case was reopened a couple of years ago. But I couldn't make heads or tails of it. The names and relationships and who did what to whom were so confusing. Reading current French news articles did not clear up the confusion. Neither did English-language coverage. It wasn't until I got through all five episodes of this documentary that I was finally able to comprehend the story and why it has captivated the French for so long.

If you opt to watch in French, be advised that the subtitles move along at a rapid clip.

Home with a cold so I binge watched this in the morning and it is a truly harrowing and shocking documentary. It explores not just grief, a judiciary gone astray but the ability of the public to act as like a mob with pitchfork in in one hand and burning torch in another. A study of humanity I suppose.

It would have been fine with 3 episodes only. Five was just too much. Not that it was bad,but it just got repetitive by the third episode. Watch it if you are bored and enjoy documentaries.

As a mother who lost a child, and knows of many others like myself, his comments were offensive, even worse. There is NO way for anyone to know what's in the heart of a grief-stricken mother. Every grieving mother I know mourned differently, especially in public. Sometimes donning a nice outfit, applying make-up, doing one's hair, is the only thing you can do to keep yourself from drowning. 'Fake it til you make it.'

The fact that he even commented on her 'prettiness'. Oh my.