Thanks to Morgan’s captivating post, this week I watched The Keepers. Her blog post last week really sparked my interest so I decided to watch it as well. The Keepers is a Docu-series about the murder of a young Catholic nun Cathy Cesnik. She was a high school teacher at the local public school, and had many positive relationships with her students.
The series follows two of Cathy’s former students, Gemma Hoskins and Abbie Fitzgerald. Another one of the main characters if Tom Nugent, who has basically devoted his entire life to the murder of Cathy. He is shown in his attic, that is full of old newspaper clips of the murder, and reads many of them. Her murder took place in 1969, so these women are now getting into their late sixties. She was murdered during their senior year of high school, and the ladies have since then made it their life to figure out who murdered Cathy Cesnik. There are multiple different interview of her students that described how much they admired her and could relate to her so much because she really wasn’t that much older then them. In the first episode, there are many different interviews with former students, reporters, former colleagues, and police officers.
The overall feel of the documentary is very uncomfortable and strange. During the entire first episode I kept asking myself is this a true story? For the life of me, I couldn’t figure it out. The people in the documentary seem so real. Their houses are all just normal and ordinary, and the cars they drive are nothing special. The interviews of the different people are some wholesome and realistic that it gives you a sense that it’s really real. The camera angles were somewhat fuzzy. It really feels like you are watching more of an amateur documentary. You see inside into these very average and regular looking homes of these people. During the interviews the actors would make side comments like you would in real life, about how it’s difficult to get into Facebook. I found it very confusing and honestly kind of frustrating throughout the entire first episode. This forced me to immediately google whether or not this was a real story. Unfortunately, the people in the series are actors, but the story is based on real events.
I can really appreciate the amount of reality that has been put into this documentary. It loved that they made this feel so real. This feels as if it should be a dateline episode that is played on a Friday night. This is a show that I am excited to binge-watch for the next 48 hours.
The overall feel of the documentary is very uncomfortable and strange. During the entire first episode I kept asking myself is this a true story? For the life of me, I couldn’t figure it out. The people in the documentary seem so real. Their houses are all just normal and ordinary, and the cars they drive are nothing special. The interviews of the different people are some wholesome and realistic that it gives you a sense that it’s really real. The camera angles were somewhat fuzzy. It really feels like you are watching more of an amateur documentary. You see inside into these very average and regular looking homes of these people. During the interviews the actors would make side comments like you would in real life, about how it’s difficult to get into Facebook. I found it very confusing and honestly kind of frustrating throughout the entire first episode. This forced me to immediately google whether or not this was a real story. Unfortunately, the people in the series are actors, but the story is based on real events.
I can really appreciate the amount of reality that has been put into this documentary. It loved that they made this feel so real. This feels as if it should be a dateline episode that is played on a Friday night. This is a show that I am excited to binge-watch for the next 48 hours.
The Keepers sounds like a very interesting documentary. I have always been interested in murder mysteries and the fact that it is still unsolved makes it even more interesting. You may not be able to prosecute the murderer in present day, but you can gain a better understanding of the events that transpired when the murder occurred. Documentaries can be hit or miss nowadays, with some being fantastic and some lacking in effort. This documentary sounds like one of the better ones.I think I will watch it, give it a chance and see how I like it.
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