‘World’s Most Evil Prisoners’ Becomes Radial Original For Season 4

I keep coming back to the number ten. Ten episodes of some of the worst people who ever drew breath, packaged and delivered to your living room on demand. That’s a lot of darkness to schedule. The real story is that this kind of content keeps getting made and keeps finding buyers. We say we’re horrified, yet we binge.

I think the show’s appeal comes from the question we never quite ask out loud: could I ever become that? It’s a question that has no comfortable answer, and that’s exactly why the format works. Radial betting big on this series in five countries tells me the appetite isn’t fading. I’d want to know how much of the production is new interviews versus archival footage, because that changes the ethical weight.

The weird part is that we call them “evil,” which is a word science tends to avoid. But the show doesn’t need to be scientific. It’s a mirror, and we keep looking.

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