FX’s new docuseries The Most Dangerous Animal of All is able to take audiences on a really completely different hunt for the Zodiac Killer. The four-part mini-series follows the person who may very well be the son of the notorious and elusive killer.
Based mostly on The New York Instances best-selling ebook of the identical identify, the sequence explores Gary L. Stewart’s seek for the daddy who deserted him, Earl Van Finest. Jr. Throughout that search, Stewart learns that Van Finest not solely resembled the Zodiac killer — one of the obsessed-over serial killers in American historical past — however that he might need really been him.
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Govt-produced by Ross M. Dinerstein and Academy Award-nominated director Kief Davidson, The Most Harmful Animal of All combines true crime with tangible and relatable human feelings akin to rejection, horror, disappointment, and concern.
“We actually needed to inform a narrative that is not your conventional true crime story,” Davidson instructed reporters at a Tv Critics Affiliation winter press tour panel in January. “It is a story a couple of man’s quest for his id. For me, it wasn’t about if we might remedy this case or not. For me, it was extra about might this be an intriguing story? And the reply is sure. We have been in a position to get bizarre with it and actually create a hybrid between documentary and scripted that is actually by no means been accomplished earlier than.”
The Most Harmful Animal of All premieres all 4 episodes on Friday, March 6 on FX. The sequence will arrive on FX on Hulu the next day.
