I'LL BE GONE IN THE DARK
HBO, 10:00 p.m. ET
Last week’s premiere episode of this documentary miniseries ended with an image that was hard to shake: a woman swimming in a lake in the movie Creature from the Black Lagoon, totally oblivious to the fact that the titular creature was swimming just below her, watching and even echoing her movements as she swam. Director Liz Garbus locked on to that movie and its imagery, which were cited by Michelle McNamara in her book and rsearched about a series of unsolved serial rapes and murders she doggedly investigated for years. She felt that the predator, whom she dubbed the Golden State Killer, preyed upon women in nearby homes and neighborhoods, after watching them secretly like the creature from the Black Lagoon, just beneath the surface. Fascinating stuff – and the story of McNamara’s investigation, as retold by Garbus in this series, is just getting started.