“The Staircase," the new HBO Max dramatic series, is a dramatization of French filmmaker Jean-Xavier de Lestrade’s docuseries of the same name — which is depicted in the new show. The fiction series ...

Jean-Xavier de Lestrade (left) with Michael Peterson in prison during the filming of the later episodes of Netflix’s “The Staircase” documentary series. WhatsUp / Netflix The premiere of HBO Max’s ...

Since HBO Max released The Staircase, there’s been a constant comparison of the drama series to the original documentary, which follows Michael Peterson’s court case after Kathleen Peterson died at ...

In the more than two decades since Michael Peterson’s wife Kathleen was found at the bottom of a staircase in their Durham home, the plot has thickened over and over and over again, so often that the ...

If you’ve been hooked on the HBO Max true-crime docuseries The Staircase starring Colin Firth, Toni Collette, and Sophie Turner, you’re not alone. Based on Jean de Lestrade’s 2004 documentary of the ...