Hulu's New True Crime Docuseries About Skylar Neese Is Heartbreaking

Hulu quietly released a three-part true crime docuseries, Friends Like These: The Murder of Skylar Neese, that chronicles the horrifying and senseless killing of a promising high school teenager. The series is compact enough to binge in a single evening and is emotionally difficult to watch.

The film begins with the basic facts: Skylar came home from a shift at a fast-food restaurant, told her parents she was tired and going to bed, but by morning she was gone and her bed showed no sign of having been slept in. It quickly became clear she had slipped out a window and left in a car, prompting the questions that haunted her family, friends and investigators about who she met, why and what happened.

Through archived footage, interviews and a voice actor reading Skylar’s journal entries and Tweets, the series explores themes of self-confidence, jealousy, a quieter form of bullying, isolation, strict religious pressures and reckless behavior.

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