Melissa has produced and directed scores of true crime documentaries and series. I asked Melissa the obvious question – why is there so much true crime on TV at the moment? And she is pretty certain it has more to do with just crime –and is more about what crime can tell us about the times we are living in. Good true crime tells us something about ourselves – in a way that is much more accessible than academic history.”However, Melissa also believes that the amount of true crime around means the quality of the output is variable. Another consequence of the explosion in true crime TV is whether some programmes can potentially re-traumatise the surviving family members of the murder victim.

Source: The Times February 21, 2022 05:06 UTC