Netflix might not have the best original films. The streaming service might not be the place for the highest quality TV. But there is one thing you can’t deny about Netflix – they have awesome true crime docuseries. It started with “Making a Murder” and most recently, can be seen with “Wild Wild Country,” and now, Netflix has another true crime series about to debut, and it looks pretty great.
“Evil Genius” tells the story of the infamous “pizza bomber heist,” where a man was forced to rob a bank with an explosive strapped to his body. The new trailer for the four-part series goes deep into the crime and takes a look at how one of the most bizarre bank robberies came about. “Evil Genius” comes from the Duplass Brothers, who are incredible filmmakers in their own right and produced the aforementioned “Wild Wild Country.”
The series debuts on Netflix on May 11.
Here’s the synopsis for the series:
From the executive producers of Wild Wild Country, the truth behind an extraordinary criminal case, known as the “pizza bomber heist,” is brought to light in the four-part Netflix original documentary series Evil Genius: The True Story of America’s Most Diabolical Bank Heist. In 2003 in Erie, Pennsylvania, a robbery gone wrong and a terrifying public murder capture the nation’s attention, and a bizarre collection of Midwestern hoarders, outcasts, and lawbreakers play cat-and-mouse with the FBI. Eventually, a middle-aged mastermind named Marjorie Diehl-Armstrong — once a town beauty, now a woman grappling with mental illness — is arrested. But 15 years later, Evil Genius proves there’s more to the conspiracy and murders than was ever thought.