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Back in March, Netflix was dropping true-crime documentaries left, right and center, feeding into our slightly unhealthy true crime obsession. This obsession started with Making A Murder, followed by titles like The Disappearance Madeline McCann, Ted Bundy Tapes, Dirty John, The Staircase, The Keepers and Abducted in Plain Sight, to name but a few. For April, much of our focus and discussion around the watercooler was Game of Thrones. Now we have been released from the weekly anxiety bought on by Season 8 of Game of Thrones, we've redirected our attention back to Netflix. In the coming weeks, Netflix will be releasing four new true-crime documentaries. One, in particular, that stands out from the rest due to the bizarre nature of the story is Killer Rating.
The seven-part series tells the true-life story of a Brazilian TV presenter and politician Wallace Souza, who was accused of ordering a series of murders to improve the ratings of his popular television news program Canal Livre. Canal Livre was a popular news programme broadcast in a remote city in the heart of Brazil's Amazon. The show's reputation was hit when it was claimed that Souza, the presenter of the show, was able to make it to the crime scenes first because he had ordered the murders. A long way to go to boost TV ratings. It was his former bodyguard that made the accusations against him, accusing Souza of being the head of a criminal organisation.
In 2009, Souza was charged with murder, drug-trafficking, intimidation of witnesses, illegal carrying of arms and the formation of a criminal organisation. After a warrant for his arrest was issued, he disappeared but later gave himself in. In 2010, Souza died of a heart attack.
The documentary will include exclusive interviews with people who worked in Canal Livre, close relatives and friends as well as previously unseen footage of Souza himself. Killer Rating was commissioned by Ben Cotner, who also commissioned arguably one of the greatest Netflix documentaries, similarly due to the bizarre nature of the story, the Wild Wild Country.
You can watch the trailer for this unbelievable True Crime Documentary here:
Killer Ratings will stream on Netflix this Friday 31st May.
