The two are left to second guess every odd moment they’ve experienced with “B” and Gail. It’s only after the FBI gets involved with Jan’s disappearance that a brand-new word, pedophile, is introduced into their conceptual vocabulary and their concern is amplified. The following episode, “The Mission,” goes into the ordeal of Bob and Mary Ann stuck in the completely foreign space of trusting “B’s” face-value friendship and love for their family with the reality of him disappearing with their daughter.
He ingratiates himself with Mary Ann with compliments and absent appreciation as a means to whisk Jan away for ice cream cones and shuttling to her horseback riding lessons… until the two go missing. The pilot episode, “Horseback Riding in American Falls,” tracks how the two families become closely intertwined with “B” getting exceptionally close with Jan and Mary Ann. As pillars of the community, they welcome fellow Mormons Robert “B” Berchtold (Jake Lacy), his wife, Gail (Lio Tipton), and their young sons into their home and hearth. Patriarch Bob (Colin Hanks) is a florist and the sole provider for his supportive wife, Mary Ann (Anna Paquin), and their three children: Jan (Hendrix Yancey), Karen (Mila Harris), and Karen (Maggie Sonnier). Plus, there’s the extra layer of austerity and piousness that reflects the unfailingly wholesome vibe of the Brobergs’ Mormon practice. Kretschmer reinforces what’s inside her lens with spot-on reproductions of the decade’s popular mustard yellow, brown, and macrame decor that filled most tract houses of the middle class. Her shooting style and the era-specific color palette makes the Idaho home of the Broberg family look like an idyllic postcard-worthy suburb. There’s a beautiful transition right into cinematographer Celiana Cárdenas’ reproduction of the era that captures the film stock look of everything shot in the ‘70s.
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Then aesthetically, the series goes all in with the 1975 setting by opening with the classic NBC station identification used at the time. Her framing is an implicit acknowledgement that the details of the case to come are bizarre and outlandish but she lived them, which helps to dispel any sensationalism. The real Jan Broberg opens the first episode speaking directly to the audience which grounds what’s to come with the sincerity it deserves.
Right from the top, Antosca makes some smart choices. It’s a far more granular and satisfying dive into the machinations Berchtold took to orchestrate his plan through master-level observation and manipulation. Writer Nick Antosca (Channel Z) must have felt that “how” profoundly because his new Peacock series, A Friend of the Family, is his dramatic exploration of the same case. The doc revealed the details of what “B” did to hoodwink Jan’s entire family to commit his crimes, but there was something missing about exactly how someone could accomplish what he did with such audacity. Twelve years old at the time, she was the unwitting obsession of close family friend and secret pedophile Robert “B” Berchtold. In 2017, Netflix released Abducted in Plain Sight, a true-crime documentary about the bizarre double kidnappings of Jan Broberg in the ‘70s.
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