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Primetime: To Catch a Predator’s Lurid and Unsettling Send-Up

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“You see how this looks, right?” The new thriller Primetime is a queasy portrait of a deviant sociopath who in the view of director Lance Oppenheim represents a clear and present danger to the public. That sociopath is Chris Hansen. Hansen is a former Dateline NBC personality best known for his 2004-07 series To Catch […]

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