“​​I’m excited to be joining you all in L.A. tonight, straight out of Sing Sing,” he said in the video. Locked up in Sing Sing, inmates are just as obsessed with true crime television as people are on the outside, he says. I didn’t know the details, but I did know he was in Sing Sing to pursue a master’s degree in theology. Choosing true crime tabloid sensation Chambers as a man on the inside to portray was more complicated for Lennon. “What are you going to write about when you get out of prison?”“I hear they have these fascinating true crime cruises,” Lennon said.