The Appeal of a Legal Thriller

On February 25, 2023, Kasie and Rex jumped in on the #MurduaghMurderMania with their take on legal thrillers. South Carolina is embroiled in a dramatic legal thriller right now. The Murdaugh trial, if you’re living under a rock, is eating up airtime on every single news outlet. Our thing is the storytelling piece and so we’re here to talk about this in context of: Genre – legal thriller? Legal procedural? Character – wealth and privilege fall-from-grace? Setting – small town corruption? A family so ensconced in a particular region that it seems untouchable? Moral / Theme – is this about corruption? Narcissism? Breeding – both in lineage terms and in festering sores of dirty deeds?