Martina Cole's Lady Killers (2008– ) User Reviews

Great Series

[kristinaleasilver · 8/10 · 22 October 2022]

This is a great series, I remember watching it the first time round and again more recently. The stories are very well told and interesting, they cover all of the series killers you would expect such as Myra Hindley, Beverly Allitt and Rose West and maybe some you may not have heard of, such as Mary Ann Cotton and Elizabeth Báthory.

If I have one complaint it is Martina Cole herself, she is a fantastic writers, I've read her books and several TV series based on them but that doesn't make for a great TV presenter. She lack any charm or personality when doing her part and come across wooden and uninterested but this is balanced out by the experts who are knowledgeable and enthused about the subjects.

Sexist nonsense ruins it.

[fugue-in-k · 3/10 · 11 March 2023]

I expected to like this series. I grant the cases themselves were interesting. I had never heard of Amelia Dyer before and I've been watching true crime for decades.

Martina Cole's continuous "Wemen serial killers are bizaree especially ones that are mothers!" nonsense was so continuous and so obviously (given the theme of the series) wrong that I couldn't stand it anymore. I bailed before the end of the third episode.

There's no excuse for it. By 2008, we already knew about Aileen Wuornos, Sante Kimes, Judy Buenoano, and many others. Society was over the misconception by 2008 (I know, I was there), so why was Martina Cole underscoring it, saying it several times an episode?

I am angry that an otherwise interesting series would be ruined with such spurious idiocy. Jot down the name of the killer from each episode and find a different documentary about her. Maybe the other documentary will mention the misconception only once and in a way to indicate that it is truly foolish.

(And just in case someone is operating under another likely misconception, I am female myself!)