Captive Audience: A Real American Horror Story is an uncommonly deep riff on true-crime that transcends so many of the genre’s trappings

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Director Jessica Dimmock's "meta angle distinguishes Captive Audience from other portraits of the Stayners, as well as from most other entries in the true-crime genre," says Rich Juzwiak. "Dimmock’s doc is as much about narrative construction as it is the darkness that humans are capable of."