A Confession

A confession is a gritty six part drama, telling the real life crimes of Christopher Halliwell, the murders of Sian and Becky.

The fact that the crimes are still relatively recent, I found there to be a certain sensitivity in the way the story was told, it's presented as factual, rather then sensational, it's dramatic, but not stretched beyond belief.

I wondered how they could stretch this show over six episodes, but they do, it goes from the crime to the events of the trial.

You will learn the ins and outs of PACE and its right procedures.

Terrific performances, Martin Freeman and Imelda Staunton especially are both superb. It contains some real life footage.

The main talking point, the camera work, initially it irritated me, jumping about and zooming, after a few episodes I stopped noticing.

It's excellent. 9/10.

I know Steve Fulcher and know the police. This is a 'good' story and a solid representation of how poor the management levels of the British Police are. Steve was totally screwed over by his supervisors, which in-turn led to failures in the case. Anyway! It's good TV and worth a look as it is pretty real to life and based around Steve's book about this part of his life.

I can't understand all the pedantic reviews about camerawork,this is a great drama spoilt only because it's shown on itv interrupting the flow of the story,also I think Martin freeman is a great actor in everything he has played.the trouble with this is it's spread over so many weeks I will download the remaining episodes and binge.Once again cannot understand the negative reviews.

The series started a little slowly and I worried it was going to be a bit by the numbers but it definitely got better. The best writing and performances were around the families. Jeff Pope took us into their worlds and in truth I wanted more of it and less of the cops!

ITV have a tenancy to make all their crime dramas about the same thing - middle aged, white male cop fights for the truth, to catch the killer even if it means he has to swim against the tide. And this was no exception - the same story again.

But the cutaways to the families and the sensitive story telling in these areas made this one a cut above.

Also Joe Absolom was outstanding as the killer trying to evade detection. Watch it for the family stories which I won't spoiler her, the nuanced writing around their very different battles and for a stand out award worthy perfomance from Absolom.

Only watched 3 episodes so far. Suspenseful. Enjoyable. I don't know the real story, which is good. No spoilers. Normally, I hate any shows or movies that use hand-held cameras. In this case the show was so good I hadn't even realized that hand-held were used until I read the horde of crabby reviews that all focussed on that. Can't wait to binge watch the last 3 episodes.