Let's be crystal clear: this is not on Screenwise because we think your kids should watch it. It's here because you might be watching it, and you need to know it's absolutely not something that should be on when kids are around.
Making A Murderer is compelling, infuriating, and thought-provoking documentary filmmaking—for adults. It's the kind of show that launched a thousand dinner party debates about justice and corruption. But it's also a real murder case involving real victims and real suffering. The details are disturbing, the emotional weight is crushing, and the cynicism about institutions can be genuinely destabilizing for young people still forming their worldview.
If you have a college-bound 18-year-old interested in criminal justice or documentary filmmaking, sure, watch it together and talk through the ethical complexities. But for everyone else? This is your late-night, kids-are-definitely-asleep viewing. The true-crime genre has value, but let's not pretend a decade-long investigation into murder and wrongful conviction is family movie night material.





