What You Should Know About Netflix’s ‘Making a Murderer’

12. The Filmmakers Maintain Their Objectivity

With the revelations on both sides of Avery’s case that have come to light in the wake of the release of Making a Murderer, the filmmakers have doubled down on their portrayal of the case itself. As Ricciardi explained, “This is a documentary – we’re documentary filmmakers … We’re not prosecutors, we’re not defense attorneys, we do not set out to convict or exonerate anyone. We set out to examine the criminal justice system and how it’s functioning today. It would have been impossible for us to include every piece of evidence submitted to the court. So we took our cues from the prosecution, what they thought was the most compelling evidence. That’s what we included.”