Miniseries · HBO
Murder in Glitterball City
Toxic love. Buried secrets.
The Nutevio profile
TV DNA
How Murder in Glitterball City actually feels to watch, measured on the traits our editors track across every series.
Signature profile
Murder in Glitterball City reads strongest on Bingeability, Serialized and Tension.
How hard it is to stop after one episode.
How much each hour depends on the one before it.
The sustained pressure the series keeps you under.
How fully written and psychologically layered the ensemble is.
How often an episode ends on a hook you can't ignore.
How much the series is designed to affect you.
The scale, internal logic and texture of the world.
How often the series is genuinely funny, by design.
Visual ambition — scale, craft and set-piece filmmaking.
The story
What it's about
The city of Louisville, Kentucky, known for its historic Victorian architecture and birthplace of the mirrored glitterball, proves to be an unlikely backdrop for a dark tale of murder. This documentary explores the shifting landscape of a mysterious killing, a toxic relationship, a vulnerable victim and the unreliable accounts of two ex-lovers on trial for their lives.
Behind the series
Created by
Showrunners, creators, executive producers and the writers who set the voice of the series.
The craft
Key Crew
Directing, writing, production, camera, music and editing.
Executive production
- Randy BarbatoProducer
- Mona CardProducer
- Fenton BaileyProducer
- Lisa HellerExecutive Producer
- Nancy AbrahamExecutive Producer
- Sara RodriguezExecutive Producer
Direction
- Randy BarbatoDirector
- Fenton BaileyDirector
Cinematography
- Huy TruongDirector of Photography
Music
- David Benjamin SteinbergOriginal Music Composer
Where to watch
Streaming
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