How refreshing! I don't know when the current public craze for true crime TV started, but this show takes the genre to a much more likeable level. These are not the typical "reconstructions" or basic retelling of the facts as they might be represented in a news story with bits of personal testimony. Instead, they are somewhat fictionalized versions using what well could have been real conversations between real people. Deliciously quirky characters. Especially Mrs. Calhaem -- a senior citizen who becomes obsessively jealous of an equally older married man and decides to have his wife killed. It's funny because he wants to take her to bed, and that's not what she wants. The viewer is left guessing as to what she really wants. Mostly, it appears she just wants him to be free from matrimonial obligations to be available as her companion. Eventually she forces him away with her obsession. Watch it to see what happens then. You don't ever see older people represented in these types of love/obsession stories. Each story is very watchable and funny, and you get a real sense of the utter mindlessness of murder.
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