Making a Murderer

     There is always that one show or movie that maybe a couple a times a year, something big will come out that everyone is talking about. For example, when the first Hunger Games came out, that movie was what everyone was talking about. Sometimes a word or saying becomes popular that everyone uses, for example, the whip, when the whip became popular you saw people on TV shows doing it, random people around town doing it and saying it. Right as 2016 hit, though a certain Netflix show became very popular. Making a Murderer, as soon as it hit Netflix, everyone was saying "Have you seen that new show?", "You need to watch Making a Murderer!", "It is so addicting.", and not just in America is this show popular, it has gone global.

     There are many reasons why everyone is so interested in this show, but there is one reason that stands out from the rest. The man who this show is based on, was sent to prison for 18 years because he was assumed guilty for raping a woman. The reason his sentence is so long because the man would not say he did it. Steven Avery, the man sent to prison, knew he did not rape that woman so he was not going to lie, no matter what happens to him and he stayed in prison for 18 years for something he did not do.

     Steven Avery comes from a small town, and everyone in that town knows who the Avery's are, and not in a good way. The sheriff and local police, especially do not like the Avery's and they find reasons to give them tickets, or arrest them. As soon as Steven Avery, gets accused for rape, one man in particular really made sure that Steven would get convicted guilty and his plan ended up working.


     The success of this show is because no one can understand how a man who is not guilty, stay in prison for 18 years of his life, and have no one find actual biological evidence that he did not rape that woman. The twist is, since he was in prison for so long, that can do things to your mind that you would have never thought of doing in your life, but prison changes you. Many things were manipulated, in order to make sure Steven Avery would be convicted guilty, not only physical evidence, but people's minds. This show is a must watch because you get to see how one man who was starting to turn his life around, get it taken away in a matter of days for no solid reasons. This one mistake from the police force, made an innocent man into someone no would ever recognize again.