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The Most Dangerous Animal of All Review: True Crime Docuseries Gives Clout to an Undeserving Story

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True crime has a way of making its viewers feel slimy. There's a particular brand of guilt that comes with being titillated, scandalized, and ultimately entertained by what's sure to be the most tragic event in some other human being's life.

FX's first true crime series, The Most Dangerous Animal of All, brings a new type of grossness to the genre — one in which the audience feels shameful simply because viewing the docuseries makes us complicit in stroking the ego of its subject, Gary L.

Stewart. The first three episodes of the four-part series cover what readers of Stewart's best-selling 2014 book of the same name already know: Stewart, who was adopted at 3-and-a-half months, is convinced his birth father, Earl Van Best Jr., is the

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