Firstly, let me deal with the production, direction and scripting of this drama series, which was average at very best but realistically - as a number of my fellow-commenters have alluded to - erred on the side of boring. There was simply over repetition of key points and a lot of padding to make this crime series two hours of quantity but bereft of a lot of quality.
The reason I gave this series a score of six is because I am a huge fan of the psychology of human emotions. Ten percent of the world population has psychopathic tendencies but only minute fractions of that percentage go on to become fully fledged and able psychopaths who go on to kill. It is important to point out here that psychopaths are not the same as serial killers in that serial killers are so specifically designated as those who kill three or more people and have a compulsion to kill, and after their first kill they will keep on killing until stopped. Of course, psychopaths can go on to become designated as serial killers if they go on to kill three or more people but the distinction from a serial killer is important as there needs to be three very rare genes activated in the brain of a serial killer for them to become active serial killers who then go on this unquenchable lust to kill. The neurobiology of the brain is different to that of the psychopath. Thankfully, that is why the incidence of serial killers is so exceptionally rare when compared to the incidents of psychopaths who have much more control when and how they wish to kill and can have more control when to stop and lay low, as it were.
Fascinatingly, 90 percent of all serial killers are men.
Getting back to this drama series, it is intriguing to see how many women in particular are duped by psychopaths compared to men, and this is not just because women tend to be victims more than men, but so many women have huge difficulty in reconciling logic with their emotions, which can make them very vulnerable. As an aside, men in general are not as much in touch with their own emotions compared to women and this of course causes constant conflict between both sexes.
To conclude my review on this drama series, I found the usual shocking lack of insight and forensic analysis by the police and investigators following the 'fire' in the car of the first woman victim, and the usual urgency to close the case as quickly as possible. The subsequent reopening of said case years later highlighted SO MANY errors by police in the original investigation that one wonders if the police really know what they are doing at times.
All in all, this was a good watch but could have been produced far better.
