Needless to say their trial was compulsive viewing in America at the time.
However, as this series moves into the crime, the hell media circus that surrounded it and delves into all the players, for me was a riveting watch.
Especially from the defence perspective.
The uncovering of what had happened to these two boys as children who were considered wealthy irresponsible playboys, was eye-watering and ugly.
The sexual abuse dished out by their parents when they were small boys was cruel and unfathomable not to mention that the brothers were convinced and utterly terrified their parents would kill them - they literally got in first.
They never defended themselves they said they did it and never faltered.
It was excruciating watching the endless delays of the trial as the lawyers fought bitterly over three years about the admissibility of the brothers' earlier confessions to a psychologist.
The prosecution won the right to play the psychologists' tapes to the jury but defence lawyer Abramson was adamant the brothers had committed the murders in self-defence.
From this stand she never wavers and speaks without preamble to the media and the prosecution. She's straight up, to the point and tough.
She is ever vehement in her belief in the two boys and the case and is an unmoving force to be reckoned with.
Jail shots of the brothers 18-year-old Erik (Gus Halper) and 21-year-old Lyle (Miles Gaston Villanueva) incarcerated in cells side-by-side were emotional and moving but never overdone.
Their guarded snatches of conversation in prison, and talking with their lawyer Abramson never hit a melodramatic, soap opera tone - it so easily could have.
I'll be watching proceedings again on Thursday night on TV One.
Even though it's mostly set in court it's refreshing not to be bombarded with the grisly, reconstructed shots of the boy's abuse, the shootings, and all the emotional drama that American telly is always keen to focus on complete with powerful symphonic background music.
