Bourbon smugglers, ‘sex energy’ and a $100m robbery inspired by CSI … three audacious cons are examined in Netflix’s fun, trashy and titillating true-crime show
Heist (Netflix) is a wildly entertaining collection of true-crime stories that falls firmly into “you couldn’t make it up” territory. In forensic detail, this debut season recalls three audacious robberies, using recreations, interviews with key players on both sides of the law and archive news footage. Each tale is split over two episodes, with one building up to the crime and the second detailing the sometimes painfully slow downfall of those involved. It is occasionally trashy – the first, in particular, goes to town on the reconstructions – sometimes funny, tense and exciting. In terms of taking sides, it can be playfully, cheekily on-the-fence. Crime never pays, it argues. Or does it?
The first instalment, Sex Magick Money Murder, is as outrageous and lurid as the title suggests. In the early 1990s, a young woman named Heather Tallchief is working as a nursing assistant, caring for young patients who are critically ill with Aids. Tallchief is from a tough background and develops a drug problem, going into what she refers to as “a downward spiral” at just 21. Enter a charismatic older man who promises to love her and take all her troubles away. Roberto Solis is a career criminal who operates under a raft of aliases. He is a poet with an interest in mysticism, the tarot and the power of harnessing sex energy, all of which leads him towards that ultimate spiritual goal of stealing a truckload of cash.
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