True Crime Tuesdays
True Crime Tuesdays: House of Secrets: The Burari Deaths
October 26, 2021 | Helen ArcherThis speculation-heavy series falls into the same traps of sensationalism and voyeurism that it attempts to criticise.Read More
True Crime Tuesdays: The Bambers: Murder at the Farm
October 12, 2021 | Helen ArcherThis balanced, thorough and engrossing documentary deserves to be the last word on the White House Farm murders.Read More
True Crime Tuesdays: A Killing in Tiger Bay
September 28, 2021 | Helen ArcherThis anger-inducing account of systemic racism in the UK’s criminal justice system is a tough but necessary watch.Read More
True Crime Tuesdays: The Hunt for a Killer
September 14, 2021 | Helen ArcherThis understated Scandi series shows how true crime drama should be done.Read More
True Crime Tuesdays: The Wimbledon Kidnapping
August 31, 2021 | Helen ArcherThis look back at Britain’s first ever kidnapping is a moving but muddled affair.Read More
True Crime Tuesdays: Deceit
August 17, 2021 | Helen ArcherThis well-acted true crime drama puts its focus in the wrong place.Read More
True Crime Tuesdays: The Widower
August 3, 2021 | Helen ArcherNBC’s Dateline moves into prestige TV territory with this haunting true crime documentary about Thomas Randolph.Read More
True Crime Tuesdays: Elize Matsunaga: Once Upon a Crime
July 20, 2021 | Helen ArcherThis Netflix true crime series is a strange beast. Directed by Eliza Capai, it features the first interview with Elize Matsunaga, who, in 2016, was found guilty of killing and dismembering her husband, Marcos, heir to a multi-million dollar food … Read More
True Crime Tuesday: Sophie: A Murder in West Cork vs Murder at the Cottage
July 6, 2021 | Helen ArcherNetflix and Sky’s competing Sophie Toscan du Plantier documentaries struggle to give us the full picture.Read More
True Crime Tuesdays: The Most Dangerous Animal of All
June 22, 2021 | Helen ArcherTruth, fiction and obsession collide in this subtle interrogation of the Zodiac killer case and the true crime genre itself.Read More