Stream It Or Skip It: ‘A Toxic Love Story’ on Netflix, a True Crime Documentary Laden with One Whopper of a Twist After Another

By John Serba Published July 23, 2026, 3:30 p.m. ET Netflix’s new gut-churner of a true crime documentary is A Toxic Love Story, a wild and twisty saga boasting multiple layers of deception and subterfuge. Some may recognize it as one of many news headlines about creepy Craigslist stalking and catfishing crimes. Depressingly, there’ve been so many of them they start to blur together, but this one stands out for its fistful of jaw-dropping moments that are all but tailor-made for docs like this. Twister: Caught in the Storm’s Alexandra Lacey directs, and thankfully toes the line of sensationalism without crossing it — not that that really matters, because these juicy true-crimers are big hits on Netflix whether they’re journalistically rigorous or trashy and manipulative. A TOXIC LOVE STORY