Love the drama of mean girls? Mean Girl Murders takes mean to its ultimate conclusion
About Mean Girl Murders
Those mean girls. We love to hate them. And when they kill, we love to watch the cases. Take the case of Skylar Neese, so shocking that it was covered by a bunch of shows, including Dateline, Snapped, and See No Evil. High school mean girls murdering one of their classmates? Sounds like a compelling premise, but Discovery+’s Mean Girl Murders doesn’t quite deliver on the stereotype.
Some of the episodes in this true crime show take you back to the days of high school, with the complicated drama and catty back-biting, falling squarely into the mean-girl stereotype. Others, however, feel shoved into the mean-girl box, when they don’t really qualify. A rodeo queen who murders her father? Not quite.
The absence of a true mean-girl slant makes Mean Girl Murders a pretty run-of-the-mill true crime show, with the usual elements like re-creations, narration, and stories from detectives and families, using the trope of the mean girl to draw audiences in. Unfortunately for all its promise, it falls a bit short.
The Show Elements
Seasons: 1 (2022-)
Where to stream: Amazon Prime Video, Hulu, Discovery+
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✘ Police interviews
✘ Trial clips
✓ Narration
✓ Re-creations
✓ Experts
✓ Victims’ families and friends
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