The Thief, His Wife and the Canoe
The Thief, His Wife and the Canoe Episode Ratings Heatmap
| Avg | E1 | E2 | E3 | E4 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| S1 | 7.4 | 7.2 | 7.2 | 7.6 | 7.5 |
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About
"A mundane lie stretched to absurd, tragic lengths"
This British miniseries dramatizes the real "canoe man" case: a struggling husband fakes his own death in a canoeing accident to cash in on life insurance, while his wife plays grieving widow and secretly helps him hide. It's a darkly comic, deadpan true-crime drama rather than a thriller, more interested in the mundane absurdity of maintaining an elaborate lie than in suspense. The pace is unhurried and wry, carried by two strong lead performances that find pathos and dark humor in a genuinely bizarre, stranger-than-fiction story.
the deadpan lead performances turning a bizarre real fraud into dark, human comedy.
you want a tense thriller rather than a slow, wry character study.
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All Seasons
| Ep | Title | Rating | Yours | Votes | Runtime | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ▶ | 1 | Episode #1.1 | 7.2 | 206 | 47 min | |
| ▶ | 2 | Episode #1.2 | 7.2 | 172 | — | |
| ▶ | 3 | Episode #1.3 | 7.6 | 156 | — | |
| ▶ | 4 | Episode #1.4 | 7.5 | 153 | — |