Maternal Instinct (2026)

Premise: (Peter Gabriel’s Solsbury Hill starts playing in the background) Meet Taylor! She’s just a country girl who wants to marry her country boy sweetheart and, hopefully, have a kid with him. She’s also due to inherit a gritón de dólares. Everything is coming up Milhouse here, except-
(record scratch)

Under 90 minutes? Almost! But no, they go over the line.
Do they say the title? Nope.

First thing I thought of:

Okay, more: So uh, uhm. I am not really super into the whole true crime documentary thing (even though I do like my true crime now and then), but yeah this was… tense. Surprisingly, this is a netflix thing but they didn’t make it a miniseries with 10 episodes, just a tiny bit over an hour and a half. And boy is the timing everything here! Thirty minutes in, you think they’ve shown their hand (which is good because I hate when documentaries drag stuff for ages just for the cliffhanger), then about an hour and some change in you get the actual horrifying stuff and boy oh boy. Yeah, watch it on a sunny day you would have wanted to be rainy I guess.

A simple way to improve it: Unfortunately a very friendly and well intentioned person accidentally spoiled the Big Twist for me, which sucks because once you have the idea in your head you can see things coming from a mile away. So I guess in my case a way to improve it would have been uh just have that friend say “go watch it”.

Trivia about the IMDb trivia tags:

What the hell was “confusing” here, and specially why the fuck would you want anyone to add any further uh “developments” to the story??? Good lord True Crime fans are the worst.