Jordan Peele’s ‘Lorena’ docuseries is about way more than a severed penis

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It’s never too late to reconsider the facts.

If you’re a true crime fan or were, y’know, alive in 1993, then chances are you’ve heard of Lorena and John Wayne Bobbitt — the infamous couple who took tabloids by storm thanks to a severed penis. 

Executive producer Jordan Peele’s new four-part docuseries, Lorena, asks modern viewers to reevaluate where now Lorena Gallo and her shocking actions on “that night” reside within our collective memory and sympathy. That request is one worth granting.

The 1990s were a dramatic time for headlines, particularly within the crime realm. Nancy Kerrigan’s shattered knee, O.J. Simpson’s infamous white Bronco, and JonBenét Ramsey’s macabre glamor shots plastered tabloid covers for much of the decade and continue to darkly fascinate through modern retellings.  Read more…

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