Posts By Helen Archer
True Crime Tuesdays: The Hunt for Peter Tobin
March 18, 2025 | Helen Archer
Told with empathy and economy, this perceptive, victim-centred documentary should be the standard for all true crime programming.Read More
True Crime Tuesdays: Devil in the Family: The Fall of Ruby Franke
March 4, 2025 | Helen Archer
This documentary about Ruby Franke is unsettling, compelling viewing.
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True Crime Tuesdays: Apple Cider Vinegar
February 18, 2025 | Helen Archer
This dramatisation of Belle Gibson’s cancer scam is a manic, emotional tightrope walk pulled off with aplomb.Read More
True Crime Tuesdays: The Breakthrough
February 4, 2025 | Helen Archer
Balanced, reserved and compassionate, this Scandi procedural about a shocking double murder builds to emotional pay-off. Read More
True Crime Tuesdays: Lockerbie: A Search for Truth
January 21, 2025 | Helen Archer
This dramatisation of one man’s search for truth is a profoundly moving portrayal of grief and loss.Read More
The Sticky review: Slow as molasses
January 7, 2025 | Helen Archer
This darkly comic crime drama based on a true heist is stickier than syrup, but slow as molasses.Read More
True Crime Tuesdays: Say Nothing
December 24, 2024 | Helen Archer
This outstanding, thought-provoking IRA drama is a late contender for the best TV show of 2024.Read More
True Crime Tuesdays: Limbs in the Loch: Catching a Killer
December 10, 2024 | Helen Archer
This occasionally repetitive documentary is grim and dark, with little in the way of new revelations.Read More
True Crime Tuesdays: Until I Kill You
November 19, 2024 | Helen Archer
Anna Maxwell Martin is outstanding in this thoughtful, challenging drama about Delia Balmer’s harrowing relationship with John Sweeney.Read More
True Crime Tuesdays: Woman of the Hour
November 5, 2024 | Helen Archer
Anna Kendrick’s accomplished, tense and thoughtful directorial debut prioritises the female gaze throughout.Read More
