True Crime Tuesdays
True Crime Tuesdays: The Push: Murder on the Cliff
March 19, 2024 | Helen ArcherThis well-made documentary about a murder trial is an incisive, intense and tragic portrayal of coercive control.Read More
True Crime Tuesdays: Never Let Him Go
March 5, 2024 | Helen ArcherThis tender, frank documentary is a tribute to a brilliant life cut short and a brief history of brutal homophobia.Read More
True Crime Tuesdays: Lover, Stalker, Killer
February 20, 2024 | Helen ArcherThis sensationalised true crime documentary is propulsive viewing let down by a surfeit of superficiality.Read More
True Crime Tuesdays: Lockerbie
February 6, 2024 | Helen ArcherThis four-part documentary about the Lockerbie disaster is emotionally moving and intellectually absorbing.Read More
True Crime Tuesdays: American Nightmare
January 23, 2024 | Helen ArcherNetflix’s startling true crime documentary is a scream of frustration at what women have to do to be believed about their own experiences.Read More
True Crime Tuesdays: Mr Bates vs the Post Office
January 9, 2024 | Helen ArcherA testament to the power of TV, this gut-wrenching drama lays bare a devastating miscarriage of justice.Read More
True Crime Tuesdays: The Murder of Grace Millane
December 12, 2023 | Helen ArcherIn October 2018, Grace Millane left her close-knit family in Essex to travel the world on a year-long overseas tour. Starting off in South America, she arrived in New Zealand on 18th November. But by the time of her … Read More
True Crime Tuesdays: Last Stop Larrimah
November 21, 2023 | Helen ArcherMurder on the Orient Express in the Outback, this oddly moving documentary is an ode to the titular small town and its inhabitants.Read More
True Crime Tuesdays: The Reckoning
October 24, 2023 | Helen ArcherBBC One’s sensitive but shallow Jimmy Savile drama is less of a reckoning than a biography of abuse.
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True Crime Tuesdays: The Long Shadow
October 10, 2023 | Helen ArcherITV’s moving, immersive drama about the Yorkshire Ripper loses sight of the institutional failures that delayed justice.Read More