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Another word for audacity1/7/2023 ![]() Her shooting style and the era-specific color palette makes the Idaho home of the Broberg family look like an idyllic postcard-worthy suburb. There’s a beautiful transition right into cinematographer Celiana Cárdenas’ reproduction of the era that captures the film stock look of everything shot in the ‘70s. Then aesthetically, the series goes all in with the 1975 setting by opening with the classic NBC station identification used at the time. Her framing is an implicit acknowledgement that the details of the case to come are bizarre and outlandish but she lived them, which helps to dispel any sensationalism. The real Jan Broberg opens the first episode speaking directly to the audience which grounds what’s to come with the sincerity it deserves. ![]() Right from the top, Antosca makes some smart choices. It’s a far more granular and satisfying dive into the machinations Berchtold took to orchestrate his plan through master-level observation and manipulation. Writer Nick Antosca (Channel Z) must have felt that “how” profoundly because his new Peacock series, A Friend of the Family, is his dramatic exploration of the same case. The doc revealed the details of what “B” did to hoodwink Jan’s entire family to commit his crimes, but there was something missing about exactly how someone could accomplish what he did with such audacity. Twelve years old at the time, she was the unwitting obsession of close family friend and secret pedophile Robert “B” Berchtold. ![]() In 2017, Netflix released Abducted in Plain Sight, a true-crime documentary about the bizarre double kidnappings of Jan Broberg in the ‘70s.
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