La mujer del asesino

Loved it and not sure why the negativity in some of the reviews so far. Watched the four episodes over a couple of nights and thoroughly enjoyed it. Good casting and excellent acting by the main characters (love Annabel Scholey from The Split and again fantastic in this). No doubt if you want to dissect it minute by minute you'll find a couple of. Flaws but for most it'll be 4 hrs of good tv entertainment. Nice amount of twists and turns leading up to the final episode that left me intrigued to see if there's a series 2 after Jules's appearance mid credits so don't switch off as soon as they start to roll..

I really loved it! It kept my attention fairly easily and we watched all 4 episodes in one sitting when we couldn't sleep one night. I watch so many shows and am always, always disappointed with their endings and feel somewhat robbed of the time I have easy d getting to that end point........most definitely not the case with this one and it kept me guessing right up to the very very end.

Like I said don't understand the bad reviews so I am glad I ignored them and made my own opinion.

Not read the book but think it's appeared in my kindle suggestions list on occasion and I liked the idea of the storyline. Now I've watched the TV version I doubt I'd bother with the book now however.

My Review - The Serial Killer's Wife My rating 6.5 /10 Streaming on Paramount

I must say I enjoyed the performances especially from Julie Graham as Clover the Serial Killers wife and Jack Farthing as her problematic husband Tom.

Mercifully 4 episodes were enough for me as the plot began to unravel into unexpected improbable scenarios.

The conclusion leaves room for a second series but I doubt it will be forthcoming because it's just not good enough to warrant one in my view.

Especially when excellent original series like the recent Étoile don't get a second series I can't see this just average melodrama achieving an encore?

I admit the first episode of The Serial Killer's Wife won me over as I thought it an interesting perspective to concentrate on the innocent victim married to a monster .

However as the story developed, no spoilers from me it became a little tedious as the serial killer aspect got blurred with an improbable plot twist that concentrated on the dysfunctional characters that certainly included The Serial Killer's Wife.

I have a theory that mini crime series don't benefit from multiple screenwriters in this case three screenwriters contributed to the story but I felt in this case to many cooks spoilt this pot boiler.

There are many problems with this series, and there are a few plus points. Thankfully at 4 episodes long, it doesn't suffer an overblown run the way many of them do. It finishes just at the right time.

The biggest issue is the mis-cast of Tom. Jack Farthing may be a fine actor, and he has that dormant psycho air about him. But a successful multi-millionaire Doctor who owns and runs his own GP practice? No, not believable.

Beth as a character is OK and I get the trade off of wanting to continue to live a life of luxury when her love life is falling apart, but she seems to wander from one strained expression to the next. Again Scholey has been a great actor but the development of her character is weak and even when she pulls a clever stunt at the end, it's difficult to side with her. Not helped by anyone with half a brain seeing the ending coming a mile off.

This needs to be filed under 'Could've been so much better'.

Suffering from a flare up of sciatica I thought I'd watch something I don't normally watch - plus it's a Saturday and a long weekend with the bank holiday. Anyway, my partner out for the afternoon I thought I'd give this a go.

First impressions are it has potential so keeps one interested just (about). Although the acting seems wooden I thought it actually worked. The storyline is not one that many people wouldn't know about being about a murder-mystery. But the way it's executed, I think ok editing, loads of unexplained plots , but overall it just seemed to work for me on this occasion.

I'd recommend this to anyone having a lazy day/evening and needs something non-taxing that keeps the interest going. Oh, given some scenes I'd recommend over 13 years and above.