Evil Genius

Now, here's the thing.

We're talking, so this is called evil genius.

They're talking about Marjorie, okay? maybe they're talking a little bit about bill too two very smart very flawed people find each other don't get married but stay in each other's lives for a really long time and seem to bounce off each other with how with uh just their perception of themselves as being very intelligent So now I've told you about Marjorie and I've told you about Bill and I've told you how each of them needed money at the time.

They each needed money.

All right.

Will you spell that guy's name? Like she's just sitting in front of her taking notes and those women testified against her.

And she kept saying, these are like, girl the reason they got a name for these jail they got a little pithy name for them is because they use them all the time they they people are in prison and they ready to get a little time off and they ready to tell on your ass this is crazy and that's what i mean so i'm here this is called evil genius because that's what trey wanted to call it and i'm supposed to believe these are the smartest people in the game I don't know, genius is overrated, I guess, you know? Anyway, Marjorie dies in 2017 after being convicted in 2011.

Bill died in 2004, so he never faced any charges.

That's a cultural phenomenon.

And then Netflix came along and said, "Hey, what if we make true crime something you can binge?" And suddenly we got shows like Making a Murderer, The Keepers, The Staircase, Evil Genius, Don't Fuck With Cats, Tiger King, and a whole new generation discovered something television had known for decades: people love a mystery.

But streaming changed the rules.

Traditional television says, "Here's tonight's episode." Streaming says, "Here's eight episodes." And you know what happens next? You watch one, then two, then three, and suddenly it's 2:00 in the morning and you're staring at your television thinking, "I really need to know who killed this person." Now let's talk numbers.