Media Series - TV
Todorov

It is more difficult to apply Todorov to this narrative as it is highly fragmented and operates through different narrative strands, for example, the story of Durst and the murders is juxtaposed with the making of the documentary about Durst.

The narrative uses the conventions of a fictionalised thriller – investigative, enigma - based – but as this is Episode 1 there is no dénouement. Episode 1 acts as the “set-up” or exposition stage, establishing binary oppositions and narrative arcs.

The narrative is a flexi-narrative in that it relies significantly on the manipulation of time and space (foreshadowed by the complexity of the credit sequence), shifting narrative positioning, story arcs and editing.

We might argue, then, that the text conforms partly to Todorov’s theory of narratology – but not fully.