Murdertown

I love this show! Great chosen witnesses and law enforcement, I love the sights and sounds of the town. After each episode I feel that I know the town a little better. As well as the people who love there. One of the beet shows of its kind. First Class narration /Hosting. Music is perfect as well.

Katherine Kelly might be a good actress (I don't know) but she's pretty awful at presenting this. Her "driving" couldn't be more fake looking if it was in a go cart. She always looks like she's pretty much reading everything she's saying. I suppose someone said "I know" if she's driving a car we can tow her on a trailer snd stick her lines on the windscreen. Oh, and she mustn't move her hands on the wheel or "look" at the road - that might look too real.

The stories are depressing but interesting for all the usual slightly guilty reasons that true crime appeals. The cops, journalists and in some cases victims do a fair job of telling their stories.

A very interesting show, the stories and accounts keep you gripped throughout. However.. it's a shame that there is a cringe factor courtesy of Katherine Kelly. It seems very unnecessary that much of the show is taken up with us having to watch her 'drive'. She could have just done the voice over..

If this show went any more slowly, it would be going backwards. I finally gave up after REALLY trying to stick it out for eight episodes of Season 1. The slow-motion walking by the main characters gets old before the end of even the first episode. The close-up of the extremely blurry facial shots of the victims adds a whole new dimension to repetitious. The aerial shots of the various towns leaves the viewer with the inevitable question of WHY. And don't get me started on the constant views of Ms Kelly pretending to drive. Who thought that in-vehicle shots of the narrator was a good idea?

In my opinion, all in all, each of these episodes would have been much better as, at most, 10-minute descriptions of horrendous crimes.

I'm a big crime fan so I watch allot of true crime documentaries and this isn't the best but it's not the worst either. The pacing is off, way too slow and the first season at least, with poor Katherine Kelly stuck in that car going nowhere for ever, looking everywhere but at the road ahead drives me nuts. They even took to interviewing other participants in their cars like they were about to drive off mid sentence. I think maybe the director wants a gig on Top Gear?

They go into a lot of detail but I would say the editing needs to be tightened up as it's often very repetitive.

Watch for the stories, ignore the rest.