Thanks for giving those of us who aren’t in Canada some tidbits of the doco.
I’m trying to think of the best way to summarize it.
If you’re familiar with the story of what happened on Friday the 15th, that’s where the documentary starts. They have KD narrating as actors play the people in the house who make the discovery of the bodies.
The pool scene that you can see on the previews is graphic and eerie. Throughout both episodes they frequently cut back to that scene: BS & HS in a misty poolroom that is only illuminated by the glow of the pool lights. It looks exactly like them and they pull in for close ups, which made my heart drop each time.
They have a number of people narrating with different insights: the FBI profiler, Honey’s anonymous service provider who is very frank (her image and voice is altered), friends of the Shermans, KW’s lawyer, an Apotex lawyer, Joe Warmington (and some others I don’t recognize or recall.)
Then they tell the story through Donovan’s eyes as he is handed the story by the Star and told to solve it.
He starts by trying to access the warrants and ITOs that are normally available to the public, but finds the judge has sealed them.
KD: “When someone tells me I can’t see something, it’s usually one of the best days of my life. Because I know I’m going try and see whatever they don’t want me to see.”
I think that’s the theme of this whole story. KD is uncovering the truth about what others are trying to hide.
He tells us how he cracked the case piece by piece.
They also take a deep-dive into the origin stories of BS and HS. Honey’s parents survived Nazi work camps and made it to a DP camp where Honey was born. Her mother was described as harsh, her father was described as immersed in what happened during the Holocaust. Their past made a great impact on them, and several people spoke of what it was like to be a child of that generation.
They go into Honey’s personality at length. Charming, but often harsh. Rude to wait staff and service people. But also warm, kind and generous once you got past that outer bitter layer. They think that could have been a coping mechanism for her. People loved her and she was a high-energy, fun person. Very dynamic. But she was human and had her flaws. She was very bright and accomplished.
BS was lethargic and sounds lonely as a child. He wasn’t athletic and he didn’t do well at elementary school. He was teased by both classmates and teachers (that wasn’t all in the documentary, but they touched on those issues.) His father died when he was 10, which threw his life into turmoil. He decided to help his mother out financially by taking every job he could.
He discovered he did well when tested. (I think that’s an important point.) He applied himself academically during high school and passed the Ontario tests (‘firsts’) and became Ontario’s top student. He went on to become an MIT rocket scientist.
The next episode focused on KW’s story. There’s enough about it online so that I don’t have to recap it. I put some new information upthread that included spoilers with new information.
It ends with the other spoilers I posted. FD’A will be featured in the next episode.
Can anyone add onto this?
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