Sorry to say it took me seven years to stumble on Errol Morris’ “First Person,” a two-season long documentary television show that aired on Bravo in 2000. God is it good.

Morris interviews a giant squid enthusiast, an autistic industrial engineer, a woman who dated a serial killer in high school, and even somehow he documents the fact that a parrot witnessed an asphyxiation murder. Each episode is about 25 minutes long. I was dead tired but still I couldn’t turn them off.

First and foremost the first-person stories are incredibly compelling. Secondly, the camera work for the “first person” interviews, the music, quirky story titles (i.e. “I Dismember Mama”) and the scene recreations all add up to create an ethereal production quality. The complete series can be found online for about $35. I can’t wait to order it.

As a side note, from the Internet Movie Database (imdb.com), I found out Morris is working on “Standard Operating Procedure,” a documentary that examines the incidents of abuse and torture by U.S. forces at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.