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Just a reminder The Capture Green River Killer is on tonight LMN 8pm
From LA Times
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By Mary McNamara, Times Television Critic
Is there a new rule that movies about serial killers have to last as long as the actual investigations? Last year, "Zodiac" clocked in at a butt-numbing 158 minutes, and now we have "The Capture of the Green River Killer" occupying four hours on the Lifetime Movie Network starting Sunday and finishing up on Monday. That's a lot of television for one story.
Fortunately it's a really good story, if you like them ghastly and grisly -- and who doesn't? Both chilling and imaginative, "The Capture of the Green River Killer" returns us to the glory days of made-for-TV movies "based on real events." One of the many drawbacks of the endless "CSI" franchising is that it pretty much put true-crime dramas out of business on the networks. For those of us who look back longingly to the days of "83 Hours 'Til Dawn," "Fatal Vision" and Mark Harmon as Ted Bundy, this is a darn shame. There is something morbidly fascinating about a dramatic re-creation of a real crime -- less upsetting than a documentary but more titillating than pure fiction, it allows us to explore the horrors of the human soul -- serial killing, kidnapping, infanticide -- from a safe distance. Look, there's Peter Strauss, there's Karl Malden; how terrible can it be?
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• If anybody's planning another Ted Bundy movie, James Marsters' ("Buffy the Vampire Slayer") brief but mesmerizing portrayal of the late serial murderer in "The Capture of the Green River Killer" (7 tonight and Monday, Lifetime Movie Network) would make a great audition tape.
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