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Des Episode Ratings Heatmap
| Avg | E1 | E2 | E3 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| S1 | 7.9 | 8.1 | 7.8 | 7.9 |
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"A calm, chilling study of banal evil"
This three-part British drama dramatizes the 1983 arrest of Dennis Nilsen, a quiet civil servant found to be one of Britain's most prolific serial killers. Rather than replaying his crimes, it follows the exhausted detective piecing together the scale of what happened and the writer granted unsettling access to Nilsen himself as he calmly recounts his story. The tone is subdued, procedural and psychologically dense rather than gory or sensational. David Tennant's controlled, chilling performance carries much of the tension, making this a slow-burn character study rather than a thriller.
David Tennant's unnervingly controlled performance as a killer who seems almost ordinary.
you want visceral crime thrills rather than a slow, dialogue-driven psychological study.
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| Ep | Title | Rating | Yours | Votes | Runtime | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ▶ | 1 | Episode #1.1 | 8.1 | 1K | 47 min | |
| ▶ | 2 | Episode #1.2 | 7.8 | 953 | 48 min | |
| ▶ | 3 | Episode #1.3 | 7.9 | 898 | 48 min |