It took just 20 episodes for the Dateline NBC program “To Catch a Predator” to leave a mark on the culture. A sting-operation-meets-hidden-camera-prank, the show had a riveting hook: Men engaging in ...
The riveting documentary Predators comes built-in with extra degrees of difficulty as it seeks to become that old cinematic chestnut, an empathy machine, attempting to forge some measure of basic ...
Predators' director David Osit obtained hundreds of hours of unedited 'To Catch a Predator' footage, beginning a path toward ...
The setup was always the same: An adult male would visit the home of a minor they had been communicating with online, and while they were expecting some sort of sexual encounter, they would instead be ...
“My life may be crappy, but at least I’m not on TV.” That’s one explanation for the mass appeal of “To Catch a Predator” put forth by a subject in “Predators,” a new documentary about the mid-aughts ...
Two decades on, it's easy to forget how much cultural oxygen "To Catch a Predator" consumed during its brief but indelible 20-episode run on NBC. Pitched as a public service, the "Dateline" offshoot ...