This is true crime, but as recounted by unreliable characters and calculatedly performative filmmakers. as a platform for a mystery and a love story. Applying modes of classic Hollywood storytelling and aesthetics, writer Ed Sinclair and director Will Sharpe use a 1998 double murder that fascinated the U.K. The construction of narrative is at the heart of HBO and Sky’s four-hour limited series Landscapers. Even as the events it depicts are disturbing, the genre is comforting because it relies on a structure that allows us to process the worst of human nature and behavior. As a genre, true crime is about applying a comprehensible narrative to horrifying acts that otherwise would be beyond comprehension.
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