Since the fiance and his family have not been interviewed for the series, it’s hard to learn much about Lalit’s role in arranging this match and the niece’s own feelings. Videos of the engagement show the family enjoying the celebration. However, a related debate on the role played by religious belief in either mitigating or worsening emotional trauma is missing. Except for the unfortunate use of a scary voiceover to read out the entries from diaries maintained by the family and a time-wasting focus on the media hysteria that followed the discovery of the bodies, Leena Yadav largely refrains from succumbing to sensationalism and voyeurism.Ĭonversations with medical health professionals place the deaths within the context of mental illness. House of Secrets handles its sensitive material carefully, perhaps a bit too much so. At their worst, such shows do little more than feed our collective bloodlust. Some of the better shows reveal misdiagnosed and misunderstood mental illness and police ineptitude or corruption. Netflix has become a proud home for this type of documentary, in which a headline-grabbing crime or a serial killer’s gruesome exploits are reopened and taken apart over several episodes.
The devil lies in the interstices of what is said and left unsaid as well as in the format of the true crime series.
Perhaps the refrain “We never suspected anything” tells you much more about the case than anything else. They were such wonderful and helpful people, says person after person. Interviews with family members, friends and neighbours throw up a murkier picture, with recurring statements suggesting that the tragedy not only evades easy answers but even an appropriate reaction.
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