Netflix has long been one of the best streamers to go to when looking for an excellent documentary or docuseries. Right now, titles like Hulk Hogan: Real American, Trust Me: The False Prophet, and Untold: The Shooting at Hawthorne Hill are brand-new and trending in their respective Top 10 categories on the platform. For those who have been with the true-crime documentary game since directors Bruce Sinofsky and Joe Berlinger paired with HBO on the 1996 documentary Paradise Lost (and all the updates to follow), Netflix may have been behind, but it quickly picked up after the release of Making a Murderer in 2015.
The story of Steven Avery took off like wildfire and had folks all over discussing and arguing over his guilt or innocence. Spotting room for more content, Netflix pushed things into high gear and began expanding its slate. Three years after the success of Making a Murderer, Netflix pulled true-crime fans into yet another case of guilt vs. innocence when it released The Staircase. Expanding on the investigations first opened up by Jean-Xavier de Lestrade in his 2004 docuseries, the project included those original episodes and also played catch-up on what had happened in the years since. In it, audiences met Michael Peterson, a famed novelist and a man convicted of murdering his second wife in 2001. The Staircase quickly became one of the streamer’s most popular titles, proving that the documentary game was a good place to pour money into.
Watching from the sidelines, one of Netflix’s competitors noticed the excitement and conversation around The Staircase, leading to a dramatized retelling of Peterson and the alleged crimes. In 2022, HBO released The Staircase, which yet again opened up the case of Peterson, but this time did so in a scripted way with Colin Firth (The King’s Speech) starring as Peterson and Toni Collette (The United States of Tara) portraying his late wife, Kathleen Peterson. The project didn’t just follow the death of the latter, but also depicted the filming of the documentary, raising its own eyebrows along the way. Now, four years after hitting HBO, the title has found its way onto Netflix where, according to FlixPatrol, it’s nestled into the Top 10.
Who Else Is in HBO’s ‘The Staircase’?
In addition to Firth and Collette, The Staircase also showcases the talents of an ensemble that includes Sophie Turner (Game of Thrones), Patrick Schwarzenegger (The White Lotus), Michael Stuhlbarg (After the Hunt), Dane DeHaan (A Cure for Wellness), Odessa Young (The Damned), Parker Posey (Scream 4), Olivia DeJonge (The Narrow Road to the Deep North), Rosemarie DeWitt (The United States of Tara), and others.
Head over to Netflix now to stream the dramatized version of one of true crime’s most intriguing tales with The Staircase.
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