

70 minSeason 1 • Episode 2
LatestThe police find evidence that Myra helped Brady dispose of the body of Edward Evans.
See No Evil: The Moors Murders is a British two-part television serial directed by Christopher Menaul. It was produced by Granada Television and broadcast on ITV during May 2006. It tells the story of the Moors Murders, which were committed during the 1960s by Myra Hindley and Ian Brady, from the view of Hindley's sister Maureen Smith and her husband David.
Acting
Maxine Peake's Hindley: terrifyingly ordinary.
Direction
Menaul refuses to glamorize evil.
Production
Bleak 1960s Manchester, all concrete and rain.
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The series deliberately sidelines Brady to focus on female complicity, a choice that angered some victims' families but created a more complex portrait of evil's banality.
Maxine Peake prepared by refusing to judge Hindley, instead studying her class aspirations and how Brady exploited her social climbing.
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