As a consequence, we end up spending eleven hours watching a show that exists at the pinnacle of storytelling, yet with women characters that would not be out of place in an early modern fairytale.
In a documentary known for its length and thoroughness, we spend frustratingly little time finding out who any of the women involved in the story are. Originally released in 2004, and now updated and expanded to cover Michael Peterson’s second trial and later release from prison, LeStrade’s film has been met with near universal acclaim. The Staircase, directed by the French filmmaker (and former Oscar winner) Jean-Xavier de Lestrade, covers the arrest and subsequent trial of Michael Peterson on charges of murdering Kathleen Hunt Atwater Peterson, married to Michael for the last four years of her life, after she was found at the bottom of a staircase in the couple’s Durham, North Carolina home in December 2001.
But clicking on her Wikipedia page leads to the same nasty surprise as watching the entire documentary-we are redirected to Michael Peterson’s page, just as the documentary directs us to examine only Michael Peterson’s story. Given that Kathleen is the corpse at the bottom of the titular staircase, one might expect her to indeed be the subject of the documentary (or just of her own Wikipedia entry).
WOMEN DATE UP OR ACROSS PETERSON FULL
Search for Kathleen Peterson on Google, and you’ll see the following: her full name, the dates that bracket her life, and the misleading preview of a wikipedia page, stating that Kathleen is the subject of the true crime documentary series The Staircase.
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