The E! Investigation: "Rich Kids Who Kill"!

I’ve been worrying quite a bit about TV recently. There’s not that much to watch? Or maybe I’m not doing my part. But the things I read in my inbox about the TV! They make me want to, like, read books. For instance, on May 12, E! will bring us “E! Investigates: Rich Kids Who Kill,” an hour-long shindig about “FROM PARK AVENUE TO PRISON”! Consider yourself reassured that there is nothing exploitative about this.

But weirdly, there are two whole cases dramatized in the show. The first is of Daphne Abdela, which, hello mid-90s. (Abdela was 15 when she and her boyfriend killed someone in Central Park. But she was WHITE so it wasn’t wilding! Then she ended up back in the news last year when her MAZDA got rear-ended.) You know, so, not so rich now are we, Mazda driver?

But there’s more! “The one-hour episode looks at a tragic death in the small, mega-rich town of La Jolla, California. At the center of the crime were some local teenagers who got involved in a bar brawl that continued into the street. The fight left one young man dead from a ferocious punch to the head. E! Investigates untangles this complex case and demonstrates how no community, no matter how wealthy, is immune to random violence.” Gosh yes, bar brawl, that does sound really complex.

I mean, this is a RICH VEIN people. Just like Mexicans in Arizona, we hear, also a surprisingly high number of rich kids like to kill. Maybe TV just isn’t meeting me halfway.