Over the course of the last two weeks, “Making a Murderer,” Netflix’s original docuseries about the incarceration of 53-year-old Wisconsin resident Steven Avery, has become something of an underground hit. Netflix released the series on Dec. 18, teeing it up for holiday binge-watching, and the gambit paid off; starting yesterday, the first full week of 2016 has been peppered with speculation, appreciation and discussion of the docuseries and the real-life case it is based on.

If the hot Netflix series doesn’t stand up to the same scrutiny of “Serial” and “The Jinx,” maybe that’s the point