Nancy and Sarah discuss “Should I Marry a Murderer?,” the grabby new Netflix docuseries about a fiancee turned key witness. Caroline Muirhead is a smart, beautiful doctor in Glasgow swept up in a romance where things gets … dark. Sarah wanted to talk about this show, because it illustrates troubling habits of female accommodation she’s seen in MeToo cases, a tendency to get caught in a trap of people-pleasing. Nancy isn’t sure she agrees with that interpretation — she’s most disturbed by the Olympic record-level of videos this woman filmed of herself — but they have a free-ranging discussion about refusing to let go of the dream, whether the cops failed Muirhead, drama-seeking mixed with substance abuse, the challenge of confronting someone you’re dating, and the grand opera of the show’s climax, which deserves to be turned into a novel (we’re looking at you, Kat Rosenfield.)
Also discussed:
Nancy bonds with childhood friends from pre-Lena Dunham Brooklyn
When the Pulitzer happens to a colleague
“I welcome the insufferability”
FBI opens investigation against Atlantic journalist?
White racial grievance at the New York Times
Anthony Scaramucci = not just good for f-bombs
“Murder as snack”
The high-wire conversations demanded by intimacy
What violence is my partner capable of?
Fiction writing is “the spooky art”
Toni Morrison is whoa, channeling from another dimension
Yes, Nancy is STILL reading Anna Karenina
Plus: The prison documentary that made Sarah want to quilt, Nancy on an NBA great, the ick of “Mind of a Serial Killer: The Experience!” exhibition — and more!
