The Jinx
A Body in the Bay
TV Flash files “A Body in the Bay” as a desk essential hour — The Jinx (2015) on HBO, season 1, episode 1, aired 2015-02-08, 43 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S01E01: listed hour 1 of 12 in the The Jinx guide, first listed hour of season 1. It aired 2015-02-08 (43 min). No earlier hour is listed in this guide. Next is “Poor Little Rich Boy” (S01E02).
Essential hour: “A Body in the Bay”. A Body in the Bay makes Jarecki's Durst access the plot: real-estate heir, missing women, prestige true crime as lightning.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
A six-part profile of Robert Durst, the scion of a wealthy New York real-estate family who has been accused of three murders over three decades, but never convicted, begins with the discovery of a dismembered body in Texas in 2001 and its possible connection to Durst. In 2012, Durst contacts director Andrew Jarecki about an interview.
Viewer FAQ
Where does A Body in the Bay sit in the The Jinx guide?
S01E01 is listed hour 1 of 12 — first listed hour of season 1, season 1 episode 1.
When did The Jinx S01E01 air?
A Body in the Bay aired 2015-02-08 and is listed at 43 minutes.
Is the hot-mic ending real?
The finale's bathroom-audio moment became a defining TV event and legal-news rupture. Access is the plot; the series does not play it as a scripted twist show.
In the series
Why this series still plays
Andrew Jarecki's Robert Durst docuseries made access the plot: real-estate heir, missing women, then a hot-mic bathroom murmur that detonated mid-air. Prestige true crime as lightning — finale timing that altered legal news and launched a boom, for better and worse, of documentary as event television.
So about the bathroom audio: the group chat treated a hot-mic murmur like a season finale, then the news cycle jumped the fence. (I said spoiler-free. The ending is the cultural fact.) Andrew Jarecki's HBO docuseries premiered February **2015**: real-estate heir Robert Durst as himself, Jarecki as interviewer-director, missing women, access becoming the plot, then a hot-mic bathroom murmur that detonated mid-air. Finale timing as cultural lightning — a defining TV event of the decade that altered legal news while…
Filed against
- Robert Durst as Self
Robert Durst occupies The Jinx as himself — Andrew Jarecki's docuseries making access the plot, real-estate heir, missing women, then a hot-mic bathroom murmur that detonated mid-air. Prestige true crime as lightning. TV Flash files him…
- Andrew Jarecki as Interviewer/Director
Andrew Jarecki made The Jinx’s access the plot — Robert Durst, missing women, a hot-mic bathroom murmur that detonated mid-air. Prestige true crime as lightning, finale timing that altered legal news and launched a documentary boom for…