I'll Be Gone in the Dark: Season 1

"I'll Be Gone in the Dark includes plenty of video footage of McNamara from the last years of her life, revealing a woman who's evidently thought long and hard about her passion for cold cases — as well as one grappling with professional insecurities until her death."

"If the aspects of the story pertaining to the Golden State Killer feel, here, the stuff of formula — one imagines the ideal delivery system to be McNamara’s book — the story of McNamara herself is told with crisp elegance."

"While the individual components of I’ll Be Gone in the Dark can work to remarkable, devastating effect, the sprawl of this approach can find the two stories working against one another as often as they’re complementary."

"Using the classy kind of re-enactments that utilize evocative shots of important objects rather than non-union actors, Garbus shoots much of I’ll Be Gone In The Dark essentially in the first-person, putting viewers into McNamara’s sleepless, paranoid mindset. And yet, she remains an elusive character."

"How Garbus balances these intersecting narratives—the victims, the author, the world of true crime—is what elevates “I’ll Be Gone in the Dark,” a series that keeps its human core in a way that true crime offerings often don’t."

"Intricate and absorbing. ... [Garbus] doesn’t waste a single minute of “I’ll Be Gone in the Dark’s” six hours. The series works as a near-perfect example of how to manage several concurrent themes, tangents and narratives at the same time, while never once failing to captivate the viewer."