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'The Yogurt Shop Murders' Review

'Descendant' director Margaret Brown takes on the true-crime genre with this docuseries for HBO.

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Christopher Campbell
Jul 30, 2025
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After directing one of the best documentaries of 2022, Margaret Brown seemed to be slumming it by venturing into the true-crime docuseries market for The Yogurt Shop Murders. Fortunately, she approached the genre as she does with all of her docs, with an interest in setting and community over procedural investigation. As seen with her last few features,…

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