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Director Andrew Jarecki — best known for the 2003, Oscar-nominated "Capturing the Friedmans," about a Long Island father and son convicted, controversially, of child molestation — has visited this material before. His 2010 theatrical feature, "All Good Things," tells Durst's story with names changed; Ryan Gosling and Kirsten Dunst play Durst and first wife, Kathie, believed by some to have been murdered by Durst but whose body has never been found.

"The Jinx" gives Jarecki (collaborating again with writer-photographer Marc Smerling) a second swing at a story he didn't tell very well the first time. Notwithstanding a cast that also includes Nick Offerman, Kristen Wiig and Frank Langella, "All Good Things" comes off as something of a high-toned Lifetime movie, psychologically simple and conventionally constructed, a mostly chronological progression from good to weird to bad to worst. The new series, which starts in 2001 with the discovery of a headless, limbless torso floating in Galveston Bay and works backward and forward from there, is a puzzle box that gives up its secrets slowly and unpredictably.

Jarecki wanted All Good Things to be a relatively balanced film, a movie that, he says in The Jinx, “Robert Durst could sit and watch and have an emotional reaction to.” He seems to have accomplished this, because soon after the film’s premiere he got a phone call from the real Robert Durst, who, for the first time, agreed to sit down and be interviewed at length. Thus was born The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst, a fascinating, unsettling six-part documentary premiering on HBO this weekend. It’s the latest true-crime story to unfold with all the narrative force—and narrative devices—of fiction. Like Serial and the riveting true-crime documentary The Staircase, The Jinx metes out information like a time-release capsule, turning each episode into a series of revelations and the audience into detectives. But The Jinx, as perhaps befits the substance of a true-crime story, has a grotty kick: Close proximity to Robert Durst is exactly as disquieting as you would expect close proximity to a probable murderer to be.

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No extras but the package contains a small paper with the code for a digital download version of the documentary for use with portable devices.

BOTTOM LINE:
Wow. There is a reason this has an 8.9 rating on IMDb. I was immediately addicted to this mini-series and watched it straight through (4.5 hour's worth). The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst is probably the most fascinating documentary of its kind that I have ever seen. It stunned me. The two Blu-rays provide an excellent presentation and the package offers immense value - I give it my highest recommendation! - DON'T miss this one!