Epix has ordered a six-part docuseries about Charles Manson and his followers titled -- you guessed it -- Helter Skelter, reports Deadline. I mean, what else could they call it, right? Sigh... The docuseries is slated to premiere on June 14, nearly 51 years since the murders of Sharon Tate and four other individuals who were visiting her home on El Cielo Drive. It promises never-before-accessed interviews with former family members and journalists who were either first on the scene, or in the courtroom for Manson's explosive trial, as well as newly-unearthed images. Now, as I intrigued …
With the release of both Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood and the second season David Fincher's true-crime Netflix drama Mindhunter, the name Charles Manson is, once again, on everyone’s lips. Manson never really went away, cementing his infamy on August 9, 1969, but it’s through these recent pop culture reexaminations that it’s worth looking at who Manson was, what he did, and why he’s (unfortunately) endured in our collective consciousness for the last 50 years. The man known as Charles Manson was initially brought into this world as “no name …