The beauty of American Experience is the coherent way each episode lays out the factual history of an event or person and how it enriched the history of America. This pukeful entry is a cross between tabloid and a Monty Python sketch. Simon Schama, in every other frame looking like a bobble-head doll, insists on making himself the focus of the program by defending his choice to fictionalize the account. Why not present the facts of the case and let the viewers come to their own conclusions? I'm surprised this was made at all, since this comes across more as a promo and an overall "cover my a--" for Schama-lama-ding-dong than a legitimate documentary.
Review of Murder at Harvard
