THE SONS OF SAM: A DESCENT INTO DARKNESS. (2021) A NETFLIX DOCUMENTARY REVIEWED BY SANDRA HARRIS. ©
THE SONS OF SAM: A DESCENT INTO DARKNESS. (2021) A NETFLIX DOCUMENTARY DIRECTED BY JOSHUA ZEMAN. STARRING PAUL GIAMATTI AS THE VOICE OF MAURY TERRY. REVIEW BY SANDRA HARRIS. © I’m trying not to get too excited about this four-episode Netflix crime doc, as, after all, real people were brutally murdered by the man who is its subject, but it certainly makes for gripping bloody television. So much so that I forgot, while I was watching it, to put the dinner on, and, worse, nearly forgot about the STRICTLY COME DANCING results show, lol, and that never happens. Whatever about dinner, you do not forget about STRICTLY in this house! The documentary concerns the so-called ‘Son of Sam’ murders, which took place in New York City from July 1976 to July 1977. They held the city to ransom for that whole long horrible year, during which NYC felt to some people like a powder keg waiting to blow. The murders were committed by a gunman, dubbed the ‘Son of Sam’ because of tauntin...