On-screen text at the very beginning of Netflix’s UNTOLD: The Shooting at Hawthorne Hill sets the stakes: “On August 7th, 2019, a woman was shot on a horse farm in New Jersey–a violent act that rocked the sport of dressage. The parties involved remain entangled in the matter and are still in search of closure.” That’s how unfamiliar viewers might first learn of the story of Lauren Kanarek’s near-death at the hands of her horse trainer and former Olympian Michael Barisone, the center of this true-crime-meets-sport documentary.
The Gist: It’s pretty wild when a true-crime documentary can get both parties to an attempted murder on screen, and that’s the real hook of UNTOLD: The Shooting at Hawthorne Hill. The documentary brings in a number of people to talk about the night when Michael Barisone shot Lauren Kanarek, but most compellingly, it brings in both Barisone and Kanarek themselves (not at
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