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The Serial Killer’s Wife is a Paramount+ four-part drama I overlooked on its release in December 2023, but now, it’s come to Channel 5 to fill an Intruder-sized gap in their schedule.
When a woman is found on the beach, and doctor Tom (Jack Farthing – The Lost Daughter) is in the frame, but it’s worse than that, she’s dead, Tom, dead, Tom, dead, Tom. It’s worse than that, she’s dead, Tom, dead, Tom, dead!
Cue the tired old cliché where cop Angela Griffin (The Wives) walks into his and wife Beth’s (Annabel Scholey – The Sixth Commandment) house, arrests him and starts shouting the odds to all the guests, and then another cliché while Beth is out and about, taking her kids to school, with everyone giving her funny looks.
To get away from it all, Beth goes to stay with friend Adam (Luke Treadaway – Lockwood And Co) for the night, all platonic, of course, but you get the feeling with this sort of drama that some dalliance is going to happen later in the series.
Angela also pulls a ‘Columbo’ when interviewing someone, with a “Just one more thing…”, and when the other cop asks, “What do we do now?”
Well, it looks like I’ll be suffering 3 more episodes of this dross, since it’s as lacklustre as the stench of a week-old fart.
However, I think I’ll check this out when broadcast, so I can laugh along at them on Twitter with everyone else.
UPDATE Episode 2:
UPDATE Episode 3:
UPDATE Episode 4:
The Serial Killer’s Wife begins on Channel 5 on Boxing Day, Thursday December 26th, at 9pm, and runs for four nights in a row up until Sunday night. The whole series is available on Paramount+
It’s not yet available to pre-order on Blu-ray or DVD, but when it is, it will be listed on the New DVD, Blu-ray, 3D and 4K releases UK page.
Check out the trailer below:
Director: Laura Way
Producers: Francesco Paglioli, Jonathan Phillips
Screenwriters: Suzanne Cowie, Ben Morris
Novel: Alice Hunter
Series: Giorgio Giampà
Cast:
Beth: Annabel Scholey
Tom: Jack Farthing
Adam: Luke Treadaway
DI Aline: Angela Griffin
Jules: Morgana Robinson
Clover: Julie Graham
Maxwell: Hari Dhillon
Katy Asquith: Livvie May
Poppy: Alara-Star Khan
Jess: Freya Duffy-Allain
Ollie Turner: Eben Figueiredo
DC Jada Hassan: Danusia Samal
DS Mike Pearson: Benjamin O’Mahony
Libby: Elizabeth Roberts
Kiran: Shobna Gulati
Supt. Ray Garland: Tim Daish
Michael Alderton: Peter Polycarpou
Anneka: Noeleen Comiskey
Marnie: Natalie Hones
Teacher: Molly Harmon
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