Nowadays, I do not expect a Netflix Show to be remarkable. Too many mediocre shows have just dampened my interest in what the streaming giant put out. That was not the case. At one time, it was the place to see shows that felt original or, at least, tried to be–there are still some like that, but they seem like exceptions.
Launched in 2017, American Vandal didn’t look like much at first, but as the True Crime doc genre found a growing audience always wanting more, satirizing it felt like a natural way of dealing with what started to feel like a formulaic trend in the making. In retrospect, this show created by Dan Perrault and Tony Yacenda turned out to be prescient and, re-watching it today, I realized it didn’t lose one bit of its pertinence. In fact, it became even more pertinent.