Michael Peterson has more unhappy thoughts on Colin Firth and The Staircase
Peterson, released from prison in 2017, is vocally unhappy with how the HBO Max series depicts his life, and his children

A week after expressing his unhappiness with HBO Max’s The Staircase—which fictionalizes and dramatizes the death of his wife Kathleen, and his subsequent trial and imprisonment for her murder—Michael Peterson has given a more full interview about his unhappiness with the series (and with the decision to have Colin Firth play him).
This is per Variety, which talked this week with Peterson, currently a free man after submitting an Alford plea (in legal terms, a guilty plea in which the defendant continues to assert their innocence) in 2017 for manslaughter in regards to Kathleen’s death in 2001, after previously having served several years in prison after being convicted in 2003. In the interview, Peterson—who previously criticized documentarian Jean-Xavier de Lestrade (also unhappy with the HBO Max show) for “pimping out” his life story to nu-Staircase showrunner Antonio Campos—expressed his continued unhappiness with the show’s depiction of his kids (despite not having actually seen it).