7.247 minSeason 1 • Episode 4
LatestTruth and fantasy clash as Susan and Christopher Edwards face trial. Meeting for the first time since their arrest, old doubts and new regrets test their love.
A seemingly ordinary British couple become the focus of an extraordinary investigation when two dead bodies are discovered in the back garden of a house in Nottingham.
Acting
Colman and Thewlis are devastatingly tender as codependent killers.
Direction
Genre shifts mid-scene—Western fever dreams interrupt mundane reality.
Production
Meticulously recreates Susan's fantasy world vs. bleak truth.
Creator
Ed Sinclair
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Based on the real 1998 'Mansfield Murders'—the Edwards couple evaded capture for 15 years by living off the parents' pensions.
Director Will Sharpe used aspect ratio shifts and color desaturation to visually represent Susan's dissociation from reality.
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