Review: 'The Keepers' - Netflix's Latest Docuseries
It's true crime. It incorporates a half-century-old unsolved murder case. It is the story of a nun, trying to blow up the biggest secret revolving around the church, but gets killed. It is too devastating to indulge, although it is only documentary series; there is no actual crime conducted whatsoever in each of the episodes.
So, if you haven't watched the series yet, better stay away. There will be a lot of spoilers.
Are you ready?
In a nutshell, The Keepers is a seven-part Netflix documentary series climbing up the must-watch competition of crime genre. It has all of the requirements:
1. Someone murdered? Checked!
2. The missing suspect? Checked!
3. Government's involvement? Checked!
4. Police's involvement? Definitely!
What makes this docuseries worth watching is the church's involvement. Yes, you heard it right. At the beginning of the series, I knew well that there would be a cover-up from the church of any adulteries conducted by the priests. When the intro brings me to the school sceneries, well... It's predator a.k.a paedophile thingy. The crime happens in 1969. And some friends compare it with Making a Murderer, which I personally haven't watched yet (already on my neverending Netflix-and-Coffee list).
The story begins with 2 graduate of Keough Catholic School in Baltimore, who have been surfacing up a murder case of their beloved nun/teacher, Sister Cathy Cesnik. The reason behind their actions purely because they love Sister Cathy. It is also because the shocking details behind it, which is sexual abuse and devastating accusations of the indifference and obstructionism of the Roman Catholic Church as well as of the Baltimore and Maryland criminal justice system. They cover this culprit, who did so many terrible things to the Keough students.
Sister Cathy Cesnik went missing in November 1969. She is a young nun, only 26 years old. She went missing from her Baltimore apartment. Her body was discovered in the following year, lying on her back on frozen hillside, far from home. Her skull broken in and since that day, up to this day, the day I write this review, no one has been able to say what really happened to her.
The series is more like interviewing key witnesses, former pupils from Keough, police and even local journalists. But I don't find it boring, at all! These 2 graduates also interview a few members of the church, painstakingly unearthing such a big secret. What I find interesting is the graduates and all of the people in this series are elder people. They are about 50 to 60 years old. Until you are led to the alleged suspect, who is already 80 years old! He is still alive *spoiler* even after did such terrible things. We still don't know yet, about his involvement, but all of the witnesses and leads lead to him.
In the first episode, I was like, okay, what would happen next? Turned out, at the end of each episode, a new fact is dropped into the narrative, until there is this Father Maskell, the obvious villain, a student counsellor at Archbishop Keough school. He is the antagonist one, and probably the man behind Sister Cathy's murder. What begins as an unsolved/cold case, unfolds a terrific tale of systematic abuse, repressed memory by some of the victims and the institutional cover-up from the church and police department. But no one is blamed in the series. It is purely an investigation, to find the justice of Sister Cathy's murder.
This (holy) father is alleged to sexually abuse the students at that school. Even though he is dead already, in terrible and sad condition (Dementia, with isolation; apparently the church wastes him in vain, though still protects him from his crime!), the investigation still lingers on another suspect, who murdered Sister Cathy under the command of Father Maskell. And maybe they will tell us more about him on the next season.
I bet there would be more facts unfold, it is because the abuse is too devastating (like there are 2 murders and also the sexual abuse is justtt soooo disgusting!) Some of the victims are still alive, and still find justice towards what happened to them back to 1969. Another conflict is they cannot charge anyone with the suppressed memory. The judge always ask for the evidence and stuff. Just upsetting!
It seems like Baltimore is just troublesome. Corruption, racism and other inhuman cases, you can find the history it all in Baltimore.
But I cannot wait for season 2! What about you? Plan binge-watching it this weekend?
So, if you haven't watched the series yet, better stay away. There will be a lot of spoilers.
Are you ready?
In a nutshell, The Keepers is a seven-part Netflix documentary series climbing up the must-watch competition of crime genre. It has all of the requirements:
1. Someone murdered? Checked!
2. The missing suspect? Checked!
3. Government's involvement? Checked!
4. Police's involvement? Definitely!
What makes this docuseries worth watching is the church's involvement. Yes, you heard it right. At the beginning of the series, I knew well that there would be a cover-up from the church of any adulteries conducted by the priests. When the intro brings me to the school sceneries, well... It's predator a.k.a paedophile thingy. The crime happens in 1969. And some friends compare it with Making a Murderer, which I personally haven't watched yet (already on my neverending Netflix-and-Coffee list).
The story begins with 2 graduate of Keough Catholic School in Baltimore, who have been surfacing up a murder case of their beloved nun/teacher, Sister Cathy Cesnik. The reason behind their actions purely because they love Sister Cathy. It is also because the shocking details behind it, which is sexual abuse and devastating accusations of the indifference and obstructionism of the Roman Catholic Church as well as of the Baltimore and Maryland criminal justice system. They cover this culprit, who did so many terrible things to the Keough students.
Sister Cathy Cesnik went missing in November 1969. She is a young nun, only 26 years old. She went missing from her Baltimore apartment. Her body was discovered in the following year, lying on her back on frozen hillside, far from home. Her skull broken in and since that day, up to this day, the day I write this review, no one has been able to say what really happened to her.
The series is more like interviewing key witnesses, former pupils from Keough, police and even local journalists. But I don't find it boring, at all! These 2 graduates also interview a few members of the church, painstakingly unearthing such a big secret. What I find interesting is the graduates and all of the people in this series are elder people. They are about 50 to 60 years old. Until you are led to the alleged suspect, who is already 80 years old! He is still alive *spoiler* even after did such terrible things. We still don't know yet, about his involvement, but all of the witnesses and leads lead to him.
In the first episode, I was like, okay, what would happen next? Turned out, at the end of each episode, a new fact is dropped into the narrative, until there is this Father Maskell, the obvious villain, a student counsellor at Archbishop Keough school. He is the antagonist one, and probably the man behind Sister Cathy's murder. What begins as an unsolved/cold case, unfolds a terrific tale of systematic abuse, repressed memory by some of the victims and the institutional cover-up from the church and police department. But no one is blamed in the series. It is purely an investigation, to find the justice of Sister Cathy's murder.
This (holy) father is alleged to sexually abuse the students at that school. Even though he is dead already, in terrible and sad condition (Dementia, with isolation; apparently the church wastes him in vain, though still protects him from his crime!), the investigation still lingers on another suspect, who murdered Sister Cathy under the command of Father Maskell. And maybe they will tell us more about him on the next season.
I bet there would be more facts unfold, it is because the abuse is too devastating (like there are 2 murders and also the sexual abuse is justtt soooo disgusting!) Some of the victims are still alive, and still find justice towards what happened to them back to 1969. Another conflict is they cannot charge anyone with the suppressed memory. The judge always ask for the evidence and stuff. Just upsetting!
It seems like Baltimore is just troublesome. Corruption, racism and other inhuman cases, you can find the history it all in Baltimore.
But I cannot wait for season 2! What about you? Plan binge-watching it this weekend?
