It is now The Staircase’s turn to catch flak for being a TV show and not a documentary - The A.V. Club
Then, just a few weeks ago, HBO had to explain that Winning Time: The Rise Of The Lakers Dynasty is a TV show based on the real story of the Lakers and not a documentary about them after Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Jerry West criticized the way the show had depicted them and certain things that happened to them.That’s the prickly bit: This is a dramatization of a famous murder case and the documentary that was made about it, it’s not a new documentary about the murder and the documentary, so any point that the HBO Max series is making is technically a point being made about the characters based on the filmmakers who made the documentary and not the real filmmakers or the real family.