Landscapers

David Thewlis and Olivia Colman give superb performances, in which you actually feel sorrow for the bad guys! Incredible direction which flips between reality, fantasy and midway between the both, give this series a must watch as it’s something never seen before in cinema.

This is an incredibly novel approach to presenting a true crime story, part factual, part fantasy, part stage, all creative and off beat. Olivia Coleman and David Thewlis are magnificent in this, anchoring their characters in the mundane and ordinary, while allowing the story to swirl around them untethered. The casting is marvellously talented. I didn’t even recognize David Hayman and Felicity Montagu who play the victims/villains (?), superbly. The legal system doesn’t come off well in this telling and the murderer (s?) most definitely does/do. I wanted to hug Olivia’s character, while the real Susan Edwards and her husbands are serving a 25 year sentence for murdering her parents (this is not a spoiler, it is announced at the beginning of the series). I give this limited series an 8 (great performances) out of 10. [Crime, Drama, Mixed Media, Love Story?]