The most exciting thing about The Serial Killer’s Wife (Virgin Media One, Thursday, 9pm) is its title. It suggests a pacy thriller ripe with murder and marital intrigue. There is some of both in the adaptation of Alice Hunter’s bestseller, which comes to Virgin Media following its debut on Paramount+, but not enough of either to rescue the show from a suffocating dreariness. READ MOREThere is a specific British genre of thriller in which a woman’s middle-class life is ripped to tatters after she commits the unforgivable sin of being a bit smug. The Serial Killer’s Wife belongs to the same milieu but feels second-rate.

Source: The Times June 07, 2024 05:21 UTC