Wicked Game: Devil in the Desert

A fascinating, well edited, often shocking docu that moves at a lick and doesn't outstay it's welcome with just three episodes.

The perp here is a bonafide psychopath who neatly checks off all of Robert Hare's checklist. Watching him talk is quite chilling, seeing his cold, poker-face demeanor and claims of innocence, alongside the TikTok footage of his rampant narcissism. I'm glad the journalist wasn't sympathetic to his manipulations.

I wish there had been more focus on the main victim. I fully appreciate keeping his anonymity, and we hear his narration of the details of the crime itself. But it would have been useful to hear more about how it's affected his life.

The surfing DA dude deserves a spinoff series of his own, I'd love to read an autobiography of that guy.