The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst – Concrete Playground

This true-crime heavy hitter draws upon more than 20 hours of interviews with its titular subject.

Back in 2010, Ryan Gosling starred in a crime drama called All Good Things, playing a real estate heir suspected to be behind his wife’s disappearance, as well as other murders. It isn’t a highlight on his resume, but you’ll see the feature very differently once you’ve watched six-part HBO docuseries The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst — because Gosling’s character is based on Durst, and because filmmaker Andrew Jarecki directed both the movie and the series.

True crime isn’t a new genre, but The Jinx proved one of its big hitters when it was initially released in 2015. While it was originally airing, Durst was arrested on…