A WILDERNESS OF ERROR
FX, 8:00 p.m. ET
DOCUMENTARY MINISERIES PREMIERE: Tonight, FX shows the first three installments of a five-part documentary (the remaining episodes arrive next Friday) based on the book by filmmaker Errol Morris. Morris appears in this documentary version, but doesn’t direct it. A Wilderness of Error does, however, present Morris’ basic take on the case of Jeffrey MacDonald, convicted many decades ago of murdering his wife and children in 1970. And his take isn’t one of absolute guilt or innocence – but confusion. Joe McGinniss wrote a bestselling book about the case called Fatal Vision, which was made into a provocative and powerful 1984 NBC miniseries of the same name, starring Gary Cole as MacDonald. In recreations, actors portray various principals in this still-disturbing, and still-puzzling, cold case.