I was pretty into this documentary about the anthrax investigation post 9/11. Like many of us, the anthrax scare was just more nightmare fuel to stare at on tv in those late days of 2001. I didn’t think it was a national problem that would effect me… though I did have brief second thoughts when I received a crushed Manilla envelope in the mail. But I reasoned the terrorists would be pretty hard up if they were targeting me…

This Netflix documentary is about the early days of the anthrax attack but mainly its about the loooong investigation that followed. I knew some of this, but my interest and awareness of the ongoing investigation faded into the background noise of politics and war. I had the general understanding the case was never solved so the movie certainly piqued my interest… maybe it had been?

And that’s the thing… the doc covers another Richard Jewell-like “person of interest” that I somehow missed… and then the investigation into who the real killer probably was. The case may not have been solved, but it was closed… and that fact, according to this documentary, doesn’t leave me satisfied or encouraged.

So I learned a lot and that’s the job of a good documentary. I like how it doesn’t come down 100% percent on either side of the story and lets the viewer decide if justice was done. Doc job done.

Score: 86