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Operating under the guise of a caretaker, Billy Chemirmir preyed upon elderly residents of retirement communities across Texas between 2016 and 2018. Through meticulous research and interviews with those most affected, director Randy Ferrell’s new docuseries Pillowcase Murders seeks to shed light on Chemirmir’s crimes and their profound human toll.

The three-part series explores a string of suspicious deaths amongst women living in upscale senior living facilities near Dallas. As family members raised concerns about the unusual circumstances surrounding their loved ones’ passings, authorities dismissed troubling details as natural causes. But one survivor’s memories would help identify a sinister pattern, leading police to Chemirmir, who had claimed additional victims through brazen acts of violence and theft.

Ferrell’s work movingly shares the stories of those Chemirmir targeted, keeping their memories front and center. We learn of the victims’ lives and relationships through recollections from grieving children and grandchildren. Their...

It’s hard to believe that it’s already May 2024, especially on the TV front. We have standing weekly appointments with “The Sympathizer” and “Under the Bridge,” are still reeling from “Baby Reindeer,” and still can’t get enough of Kristen Wiig in “Palm Royale” — but there’s a whole new crop of May shows about to debut that deserve the audience’s dutiful attention.

May brings some big names back to TV, including Sean Bean with Hulu’s “Shardlake,” Jeff Daniels with Netflix’s “Man in Full,” and Benedict Cumberbatch with “Eric.” Joel Edgerton headlines Apple’s twisted thriller about a man unmoored from reality in “Dark Matter,” while André Holland plays Black Panther party founder Huey P. Newton in “The Big Cigar.” Many new shows are based on novels or articles, and on the reality front there’s “Love Undercover” — about soccer stars searching for romance; on the documentary side “Pillowcase Murders,...