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I have watched the first episode twice and still can't relate to the characters, the plot or the overall presentation. I find the odd camera angles bizarre and the wind backs really stupid. You are just beginning to make some sense of it all, when the clock winds back and you are starting from another angle. Seems like the producers are running out of ideas for a good story and think that the post modern 'arty' approach is the way to go. Even the pretentious title of 'Killer' backwards is overthought and tedious. Shan't be watching another episode, but I can only hope it gets better. Please BBC give us some well written and paced 'noir' like Spiral or the Scandie noir genre.

Keep in mind I base this solely on the pilot.

But watching a story go back and forth between past and present, is kind of confusing. It start out with some person who's face is badly burned/scarred,walking up to a person outside a kindergarten or children school. Telling him it's over,and to give himself up. After that,the story unfolds backwards. To unravel who the perp. Is and what he had done.

Which to me, makes it kind of hard to follow. Cause it switches constantly between how far in the past it goes.Then,when you feel you got the grasp of it,it messes up the time line again.

My biggest problem is that, there's nothing to hold on to,to make you care. I feel like I walked into a theater in the middle of a movie

I doubt this will last more than one season.

Such a shame. Excellent acting and typical BBC big screen production but all let down by a mind numbingly boring script and completely ridiculous jumping around the time line of events. It's actually hard to believe that any TV production company took on this dreadful story, but it's harder to believe that they thought it could be a success. The mind boggles. Without question the worst BBC drama I've ever seen

Total garbage!!!

All the backwards and forwards left me totally confused, tried 2 episodes but gave up after that.

Somebody was trying to be very clever here but sadly it doesn't work for me.

I made it up to somewhere near the beginning of episode 4 and just decided it was so much jumping around in the timeline that I didn't even care who the killer was anymore. I just couldn't imagine trying to follow what's going on anymore with how mangled and disconnected the story felt with the way it was edited. Tbh, I don't know how it ended, and I'm good with that.