Murdertown

Katherine Kelly is a fine actress but totally wrong for this series. Firstly, the credits state....starring.......it's a documentary for crikes sake. Needs a much stronger voice over to help the flow. Good title but the overall production is clumsy and lacks a real ouch.

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.

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.

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.

I didn't find the show itself all that bad but the presenter, Katherine Kelly is absolutely AWFUL! They have her "driving" around different towns giving commentary that she's clearly reading off a prompter and doing a TERRIBLE job at that! I thought actors were capable of memorizing a paragraph of lines for God's sake! She's worse than Joe Biden TRYING to read his personal opinion that's been written for him off a prompter, and I honestly didn't think that was possible.