If it’s one thing I love watching on Netflix, it’s a thought-provoking documentary. The streamer is jam-packed with options, too. But my preferred doc flavor is of the Tiger King variety, and I’ve been looking for something to bring that wild, twisty energy for some time. The Kings of Tupelo: A Southern Crime Saga is exactly what I was looking for. It’s an easy binge at just three one-hour episodes, and the story that unfolds here has stayed with me for months.
Emmy-winning directing duo Maclain and Chapman Way, the brothers behind Netflix’s Untold docuseries and the riveting cult doc Wild Wild Country, are the creators behind The Kings of Tupelo. It’s a stranger-than-fiction true crime tale that follows Paul Kevin Curtis, an Elvis impersonator and outspoken conspiracy theorist who finds himself at the center of a small-town rivalry that evolves into a terrorist manhunt.
The legend of Elvis Presley looms large in Tupelo,
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