The Jinx
Poor Little Rich Boy
TV Flash files “Poor Little Rich Boy” as hour 2 of 12 in the TV Flash guide — The Jinx (2015) on HBO, season 1, episode 2, aired 2015-02-15, 46 min.
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How this hour is filed
This leaf is S01E02: listed hour 2 of 12 in the The Jinx guide, hour 2 of 6 in season 1. It aired 2015-02-15 (46 min). The listed hour before it is “A Body in the Bay” (S01E01). Next is “The Gangster's Daughter” (S01E03).
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
2013: Durst's interview with Jarecki begins with his childhood, when he witnessed his mother's suicide. His father, Seymour – distant and cold, obsessed with building the Durst Organization into a real-estate behemoth and leaving his mark on the Manhattan skyline – pressures young Robert to join the family business. Durst describes his disinterest in following in his father's footsteps, and recalls meeting Kathie McCormack, a beautiful girl from a modest background. The couple fall in love and move to Vermont, where they lead a simple life and run a health-food store called All Good Things. But not long after, Seymour prevails and Robert returns to New York to take his place at the powerful Durst Organization. 1982: Robert and Kathie have been married for nearly 10 years, during which they have moved from their idyllic life in Vermont back to New York City. They divide their time between a penthouse apartment on Riverside Drive, and an upstate house on picturesque Lake Truesdale, 50 miles north of Manhattan. After a weekend at the lake house, Durst walks into the 20th Precinct and tells desk sergeant Michael Struk that he hasn't seen his wife in five days. He says that when he last saw her, he was putting her on a train in Katonah to return to NYC for medical school classes. The details of their last weekend together are a subject of much controversy by those who know the couple. Believing Robert knows more about Kathie's fate than he is letting on, her family and friends embark on a hunt for the truth.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Poor Little Rich Boy sit in the The Jinx guide?
S01E02 is listed hour 2 of 12 — hour 2 of 6 in season 1, season 1 episode 2.
When did The Jinx S01E02 air?
Poor Little Rich Boy aired 2015-02-15 and is listed at 46 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…
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- 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…