Meet Marry Murder

Commenting here only to warn those who have been in any form of abusive relationships.

Unfortunately, of the two episodes I watched, there was significant ignorance in the professionals interviewed in their understanding of abusive relationships. In particular, why the victims stay. They appear to be looking for logical reasons rather than understanding the manipulation and the extremely damaging effects it can cause.

This series appears to be for titillation rather than education or to better the poor situations so many find themselves in, through no fault of their own. Go ahead and watch but please don't use this as an example of how victims should be spoken of.

I love true crime shows, so I was excited to start this series. I do like how they make awareness of domestic abuse for both men and women. The stories themselves are pretty interesting and intriguing. The narrator has a good voice and there's a good mix of British and American stories. The thing is, all of the "experts" are annoying. The editing job makes them look bad. They repeat themselves over and over again. Why do we need to hear from a criminologist and journalist talk about the same thing over and over again? It also doesn't help that the same experts are in every episode and they talk like they know the people intimately when in reality they're probably just reading cue cards.

It's a long series, some episodes are worth watching, some aren't. Sometimes there's a little too much glee put into the delivery, you have to remember that these are real people.

I've worked my way through the series, and there are definitely some interesting cases, as someone who's lived a very safe, sheltered, typical 9 to 5 life, it's something of an eye opener to see the lives some people have.

The most shocking episode, by far, the story of Manling Tsang Williams, honestly, the embodiment of evil.

Killings both in The UK and USA, we see both male and female killers. One issue I have the whole way though, the bias in how killers of both sexes are treated, the men are always, quite rightly vilified, each one of them is made out to be monstrous, no arguments.....the female killers however are not given the same vitriol, one so called expert in particular is hugely guilty of such bias.

There's a lot of Police bashing throughout, you won't here any positives about the many dedicated and honest Police who strive to keep us safe, any excuse to twist the knife, in it goes.

7/10.

One involved person says something then the next says the same, in only slightly different words. They even repeat some clips. Could have easily been 20 min episodes.

From reading the other reviews, I would say they are not true aficianados of the genre. Michelle Trachtenberg is terrible, though. Her makeup and wardrobe for the show make her look old and weird. And whoever scripted her dialogue has no compassion for the families involved. But the stories themselves are at least some I haven't seen before. And the telling of the tales is credible and adequate. There are too many different "experts" per episode, though. The show should have taken more time to look at the unfolding of events rather than analyzing what might have been going on in people's heads. The episode "Cheater's Collision Course" is the best.