The new four-part Netflix
docuseries features the only interviews with the ex-genius turned Unabomber, as
well as testimonials from his close family and friends.
Published Feb. 22, 2020 5:18AM ET
Given that he articulated his entire
ideology in an enormous manifesto, there’s no burning need to hear any more from Ted
Kaczynski, aka the Unabomber, who killed three and maimed 23 over the
course of his 17-year reign of terror, carried out from his remote Lincoln,
Montana, shack. Nonetheless, those morbidly fascinated by the notorious
boogeyman can now listen to him expound on his life, actions and philosophy
courtesy of Unabomber: In
His Own Words, Netflix’s alternately insightful and clumsy
four-part series (premiering Feb. 22). More of a familiar recap than an
eye-opening exposé, its main contribution to the dialogue about the fiend are
audio clips from both the sole in-depth interview he ever granted, as well as a
1958 Harvard University experiment in which he participated—and which some
blame for partially turning him into a sociopathic mad bomber.
“It was simply anger and revenge, and I was going to
strike back. Try not to get blown up,” Kaczynski laughs during the title
credits of Unabomber: In His
Own Words, whose calling-card interview excerpts come from a prison
chat he had with Earth
First! environmental activist Theresa Kintz. The revenge to
which he refers was, in a straightforward sense, against the techno-industrial
state, a system he reviled—thinking it curtailed freedoms and led to social and
individual horrors—and advocated destroying, including by murderous means.
According to writer/director Mick Grogan’s docuseries, which benefits from the
input of Kaczynski’s brother David and sister-in-law Linda (who eventually
discovered he was the Unabomber and turned him in), those beliefs were the
byproduct of lifelong alienation from his peers, and from women, which bred in
him a resentment that sent him on his destructive path.
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