Posts By Helen Archer
BBC Three TV reviews: What’s new on the online channel and what’s worth watching?
November 28, 2020 | Helen Archer
In February 2016, BBC Three became the UK’s first online TV channel. The channel continues to serve up fresh new stuff every day, both long-form drama, documentary and comedy and short-form content that ranges from animations and clips to interviews … Read More
Netflix UK TV review: Carmel: Who Killed María Marta
November 24, 2020 | Helen Archer
This occasionally rushed docuseries captures the media frenzy surrounding a notorious Buenos Aires murder.Read More
True Crime Tuesdays: The Trials of Oscar Pistorius
November 10, 2020 | Helen Archer
Focusing more on Oscar Pistorius than Reeva Steenkamp, this true crime documentary is as exasperating as it is disrespectful.Read More
True Crime Tuesdays: The Shipman Files: A Very British Crime Story
October 27, 2020 | Helen Archer
This documentary about Britain’s worst serial killer shines a humanising spotlight on his invisible victims.Read More
True Crime Tuesdays: American Murder: The Family Next Door
October 6, 2020 | Helen Archer
Netflix’s unsettling documentary about the Watts family murders is a first-hand look at the banality of evil.Read More
True Crime Tuesdays: I’ll Be Gone in the Dark
September 22, 2020 | Helen Archer
HBO’s moving Michelle McNamara documentary is a humane examination of the long-lasting nature of trauma.Read More
True Crime Tuesdays: Outcry
September 8, 2020 | Helen Archer
This tough-to-watch documentary is a reminder that wrongful conviction can happen to anyone.Read More
True Crime Tuesdays: Dirty John Season 2
August 25, 2020 | Helen Archer
Amanda Peet is fantastic in this study of the murderous effect that power imbalances can have.Read More
Why Good Trouble should be your next box set
August 23, 2020 | Helen Archer
The Fosters was a long-running drama, unfolding over five seasons, which detailed the lives of a large and diverse foster family. When it was cancelled in 2018, this spin-off series sprung from the ashes, following two of the adopted Foster-Adams … Read More
True Crime Tuesdays: Mommy Dead and Dearest
August 11, 2020 | Helen Archer
This thoughtful documentary about Gypsy Rose Blanchard raises lingering questions about manipulation, control and the legacy of abuse.Read More
