As original true crime dramas go, “A Friend of the Family” is a highly unusual one — not just for its harrowing subject matter but due also to its production pedigree. The nine-part limited series premiered on streamer Peacock last October, telling the story of Jan Broberg and her family. In the 1970s, Broberg was a young girl and adolescent who was systematically groomed — along with her parents and younger siblings — by her next-door neighbor, a charismatic, master manipulator sociopath and pedophile named Bob Berchtold. He kidnapped Jan twice — when she was age 12 and again at 14 — and went largely unmonitored and unprosecuted for the better part of a decade. The vividly-dramatized docudrama stars Oscar winner Anna Paquin, Colin Hanks, Jake Lacy and Mckenna Grace.
To shine a spotlight on the show’s powerful, wrenching and superbly-rendered narrative, watch Gold Derby’s special 42-minute “Making of” roundtable discussion of “Friend of the Family...
To shine a spotlight on the show’s powerful, wrenching and superbly-rendered narrative, watch Gold Derby’s special 42-minute “Making of” roundtable discussion of “Friend of the Family...
- 6/7/2023
- by Ray Richmond
- Gold Derby
"The research was really intense," admits Emmy nominee Karri Farris when discussing her makeup work on "Bonnie and Clyde," which is nominated for Best Miniseries. -Break- "We spent many, many hours on the phone and in front of computers, calling people, museums, emailing historians," she says about her quest to recreate the notorious bandit lovers whose crime spree ended in an ambush of police bullets in the early 1930s. Emile Hirsch starred as Clyde Barrow and Holliday Grainger as Bonnie Parker in the epic mini that aired simultaneously on Lifetime, A&E and History networks. "We contacted a forensic lipstick scientist. I didn't even know that job existed. We contacted tattoo artists to make sure we matched Clyde's tattoos to what he actually had on his body, of which there only very, very poor photos. "We wanted to be as accurate as we could. It's kind of a mystery. The only people who.
- 7/24/2014
- Gold Derby
"The research was really intense," admits Emmy nominee Karri Farris when discussing her makeup work on "Bonnie and Clyde," which is nominated for Best Miniseries. -Break- "We spent many, many hours on the phone and in front of computers, calling people, museums, emailing historians," she says about her quest to recreate the notorious bandit lovers whose crime spree ended in an ambush of police bullets in the early 1930s. Emile Hirsch starred as Clyde Barrow and Holliday Grainger as Bonnie Parker in the epic mini that aired simultaneously on Lifetime, A&E and History networks. "We contacted a forensic lipstick scientist. I didn't even know that job existed. We contacted tattoo artists to make sure we matched Clyde's tattoos to what he actually had on his body, of which there only very, very poor photos. "We wanted to be as accurate as we could. It's kind of a mystery. The only people who.
- 7/24/2014
- Gold Derby
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