HELTER SKELTER
Epix, 10:00 p.m. ET
DOCUMENTARY MINISERIES PREMIERE: This new documentary series goes over a lot of familiar ground – but also goes deeper in some spots, providing home movies and photos of the people drawn into Charles Manson’s gravity field, and sampling some from Manson himself. It also uses enough of his studio and home recordings to establish his level of talent as a singer and composer, which was one of his driving ambitions. Most interesting in this study, though, is how it punctures popular myths about other driving ambitions attributed to Manson. Namely, that he wanted to incite a race war, and had grand schemes as a sort of hippie criminal mastermind. Apparently, far from it…