Whether you've already made your way through every true-crime series that's streaming right now, or you haven't stopped obsessing over Toni Collette's haunting performance in the 2018 film Hereditary, this new HBO Max series will surely be of interest.
In the new limited series, The Staircase, Collette stars as the real-life Kathleen Peterson, a woman who was found dead at the bottom of her home's staircase and was believed to have been murdered by her husband—the famous crime novelist, Michael Peterson (Colin Firth).
The events of this mysterious case were first explored in a 2004 French miniseries of the same name, which documented Michael's trial and compiled interviews and clips from those close to the case. Now, the story will be covered in this fictionalized retelling, which is only the latest new series to cover a historically controversial court case.
