Wormwood
Wormwood Episode Ratings Heatmap
| Avg | E1 | E2 | E3 | E4 | E5 | E6 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| S1 | 7.0 | 6.9 | 7.0 | 7.0 | 7.2 | 7.0 | 7.2 |
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About
"A true Cold War death that refuses to resolve"
Wormwood tells the true story of Frank Olson, a scientist who died in a 1953 fall from a New York hotel window, and his son's decades-long quest to learn whether the CIA killed him. Errol Morris blends staged dramatic reenactments with documentary interviews, circling the same events from multiple angles rather than marching toward a tidy answer. It is deliberate, talky, and unsettling rather than thrilling, more meditation on unknowability than mystery-solving procedural. Patience is rewarded with atmosphere and dread, not closure.
the hypnotic Errol Morris style mixing reenactment and interview into something unlike standard true crime.
you want a conventional mystery with a clear resolution rather than open-ended ambiguity.
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All Seasons
| Ep | Title | Rating | Yours | Votes | Runtime | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ▶ | 1 | Chapter 1: Suicide Revealed | 6.9 | 274 | 41 min | |
| ▶ | 2 | Chapter 2: A Terrible Mistake | 7.0 | 206 | 48 min | |
| ▶ | 3 | Chapter 3: The Forbidden Threshold | 7.0 | 185 | 41 min | |
| ▶ | 4 | Chapter 4: Opening the Lid | 7.2 | 172 | 47 min | |
| ▶ | 5 | Chapter 5: Honorable Men | 7.0 | 166 | 41 min | |
| ▶ | 6 | Chapter 6: Remember Me | 7.2 | 160 | 40 min |