There are many questions regarding Lance Oppenheim’s latest feature, Primetime. Why did the well-known documentary filmmaker (Some Kind of Heaven, Ren Faire) decide to make a narrative film, and one centered on To Catch a Predator (2004-07) host Chris Hansen, of all people? The cynical answer would be Oppenheim found out about David Osit’s documentary on the same subject, the 2025 Sundance darling Predators, and it convinced him to scuttle a copycat doc and instead go full biopic. Although that would be a gross oversimplification of things, the strange truth is that the films overlap in their dissection of Hansen. Predators is a sprawling doc that focused on the history of the infamous reality show, including the vigilante group Perverted Justice that aided Hansen in ensnaring predators by impersonating minors in internet chat rooms. TCaP’s ratings-fueled zeal to entrap and