his wife, Jody, and Steven’s mother, Kay, who has been through more than anyone should ever have to endure.Ī three-part docuseries available Thursday on Hulu. In addition to the obligatory news footage from the time, the series features interviews with Steven Stayner’s grown children, Ashley and Steven Jr. That misgiving aside, “Captive Audience” is a well-crafted, three-part documentary series premiering Thursday on Hulu. It’s strange to see these actors revisiting the characters they once portrayed-now reading the actual words of the subjects of the material.
The filmmakers feature clips from the made-for-TV movie to augment the story-but also engage in the highly unusual and somewhat unsettling practice of having the actors who portrayed Steven and his older brother Cary reading from transcripts of interviews with the real Steven and Cary, conducted by screenwriter JP Miller (“Days of Wine and Roses,” “Helter Skelter”) as research for the NBC project. The acclaimed miniseries attracted a combined audience of more than 71 million viewers over the course of two evenings, with Cindy Pickett ( “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off”) and John Ashton (“Beverly Hills Cop” movies) as the parents of Steven Stayner, who was 7 years old when he was kidnapped in 1972 and miraculously returned home in 1979 at the age of 14.
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