The Staircase was great but the remake is a dud

The Sundance documentary The Staircase from about 15 years ago I think was well ahead of its time, a terrific series that took us through a sensation murder trial in N.C. that had amazing twists and turns and revelations - surprises to everyone in the courtroom - along the way. The filmmakers had access to both prosecution and defense, with the goal of showing exactly how the two sides prepare for and proceed with the investigation and the trial (the prosecutors pulled out of the deal before the trial started, so it really becomes a documentary about the defense, by the end). The filmmakers had the idea of covering a "typical" homicide trial, with the focus being mainly on forensic evidence - but the trial became anything but typical, much more than they'd anticipated. Many years before the unstoppable craze for the TV miniseries in general and the murder case studies in particular, this series set the bar, and was tight and tense with 6 episodes of 30 minutes each. Now Netflix has the idea of expanding the series in 2 ways: building the first 30-minute episodes into 9 hour-long episodes by adding in outtakes from the original shoot (and perhaps some video shot following the initial trial) and adding 5 more episode of follow-up. Terrible idea! (Possible spoiler alerts) We watched the first episode and the first "new" episode last night. The first episode now feels bloated, tedious, and repetitious, providing no new elements of interest and just dragging the episode along to hit the60-minut mark. We thought - having seen all the original episode through the verdict - we'd just jump ahead to the first new, post-verdict episode, which seemed to have about 15 minutes worth of material and 45 minutes of waste - covering points that had clearly been made already, spending way too much time w/ the sibling and children and others friends of the perp. - we're clearly on the side of the defense now and doing the bidding of the defense team (helping see the man, Michael Peterson?, as a beloved victim of a miscarriage of justice). Maybe he is a victim, but we're getting no insight, no depth, nothing new. Did I really have to see his daughter's 30th bd party?, as well as her visits to court and to the jailhouse, plus various interviews, all to show how much she loves her dad? This series is a dud. Watch the 6 original episodes and and save yourself five hours by reading about the fate of the appeal on line.