Murdertown

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.

It reminds me of a college kid using PowerPoint for the first time... using transitions for every graphic and unnecessary slo mo videos. Like chill out and focus on the story.

I am not sure why we need to see the presenter walking in slow motion with her hair bobbing? I'm also concerned at why we need to see her driving in her car and taking her eyes off the road for her two lines.

The content is okay though. That's why I gave it 7.

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.