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.

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.

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..

SSSSLLLLOOOOWWWW. And repetitive. Replays the same clips, repeats information, and is obsessed with its own title, repeating it ad nauseum...and really, it's the dumbest conceit. Kelly at the towed wheel is a total joke...as if she's driving the storytelling? Omg STUPID. Would have been so much better to lose her, cut run time in half, tell the story ONE time, never repeat clips, be concise and lose the terrible overhead shots and fuzzy close-ups of people and weapons. Stop haranguing on how FEARFUL each community is. Duh. We get it. This is painful to watch, for all the wrong reasons. But it offers a gazillion options to turn watching it into a drinking game, if you are so inclined. This series should be used as a cautionary tale in any TV production class. Just horrible. How in the world does it have a 7.1 rating? I guess people are desperate for real crime stories, and willing to overlook the crimes committed by this show against the audience.