“America’s fascination with true crime is played for satire in the dark comedy ‘Based on a True Story,’ a Peacock series following a married couple who seize upon the opportunity to make a podcast with a serial killer,” writes Tribune critic Nina_Metz.
Thank you for supporting our journalism. This article is available exclusively for our subscribers, who help fund our work at the Chicago Tribune.From left: Kaley Cuoco and Chris Messina play a married couple who launch an unusual podcast project in “Based on a True Story.”
Tonally, the eight-episode series teeters between slasher territory and the humor of domestic ennui. Ava and Nate’s marriage has grown stale, their professional ambitions thwarted. She’s a real estate agent who struggles to land high-end clients; he’s a tennis pro at the Beverly Club who has recently been demoted. To be clear, this is a very upper-middle-class kind of frustration, and while the show hints at some class issues, it doesn’t go far enough.
Ava and Nate’s story is forever unraveling and it might have benefited from a clearer sense of what these two hope to achieve with the podcast. There’s not one substantive conversation about what happens if enough people believe they’re really platforming a killer, and while I think that’s true to life , the beauty of fiction is that it can imagine what that thought process might look and sound like.
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