For whatever reason, Donnie Wahlberg wrote an op-ed about Making A Murderer
Even random members of New Kids On The Block have opinions about Making A Murderer. For whatever reason, Donnie Wahlberg—who stars in the CBS police drama Blue Bloods and has played a cop in a number of other productions—penned an op-ed in today’s Chicago Sun-Times expressing his opinions about the show and attempting to debunk the fact that there are bad cops out there. In his essay, “Making A Murderer, or Making A Martyr?,” Wahlberg stumbles toward his point, comparing Steven Avery’s case to that of O.J. Simpson (a fact he incorrectly calls “ironic”) and using a hell of a lot of quotation marks to accent words like “evil,” “key,” and “found.” Wahlberg, who’s apparently investigated or at least read about all the damning evidence left out of the Netflix show, believes there are a number of parallels between Avery and Simpson, all of which are fairly convoluted. For example:
In “Making a Murderer,” the police are made to look like “evil” men by the defense. Just like Johnny Cochran argued about the cops in the O.J. case. But did the Manitowoc officers ever show anything in their history that would make us think that they were any more evil than Detective Mark Fuhrman was in the O.J. trial? Mark Fuhrman: A cop who put his hand on a Bible and swore to have never said the “N-word” in his life, but was then proven to have uttered it hundreds of times only weeks earlier.
He also seems to believe Avery is guilty, and that the show’s filmmakers, Moira Demos and Laura Ricciardi, are guilty of manipulating supple audience sentiment. (Which Blue Bloods has certainly never done.) As Wahlberg puts it,
It seems the show’s apparent goal was for the audience to believe that the police, in a rush to judgment, “created” a murderer in Steven Avery (hence the title of the series).
But one can’t help but wonder if it is the producers — and now the viewers — of the series, who are actually the ones doing the “creating.”
By creating a martyr of Steven Avery.
Boom, dynamite!