What really makes Making a Murderer so good?

 

No matter how many magazine articles you’ve read about the problems of incompetent representation, prosecutorial overreach, and police corruption, it’s impossible not to be shocked by the way Avery and his family have been treated by representatives of Manitowoc County over the last 25 years. Over the course of 10 hours, Making a Murderer lays bare the shortcomings of the criminal justice system—it’s outrageous and outraging how unequal the documentary shows the contest between the state, with all its resources, and the individual charged with a crime to be.

But how on earth did the show’s creators get me—a woman and a cat lover—to side with an accused murderer/rapist whose rap sheet involves mistreatment of a cat (albeit when he was very young)? Mostly by getting out of the way.
 read the articlE By JUNE THOMAS
What really makes Making a Murderer so good? Unlike Serial and The Jinx, there's no narrator.