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MANHUNT: UNABOMBER
August 29, 2017  | By David Bianculli

Discovery, 10:02 p.m. ET

 

Part 5. This fact-based miniseries continues to play fast and loose, and increasingly faster and looser, with the facts of the case it’s dramatizing. Because of the performances, though, and some of the details that do indeed match the official record, this Discovery docudrama continues to be worth recommending, and viewing. I do wish, however, that Discovery would have discovered that, in a dramatization based on fact, the closer a TV adaptation can get to those facts is better all around, including when it comes to the drama itself. Truth isn’t only stranger than fiction. Most of the time, it’s better. Paul Bettany stars as Ted Kaczynski, the Unabomber, and Sam Worthington plays the FBI profiler who hunted him for years.

 
 
 
 
 
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