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This drama series deals with more complete investigations into the set of murders committed at the White House Farm home. For a long time, these bloody events continued, which affected and considered public opinion issues. The series follows everything that actually happened in this period, including the police and court investigations that followed, according to those crimes.
White House Farm is a very good drama indeed - skilfully cast and careful to avoid ghoulishness in its handling of one Britain's most notorious murder cases.
Fox is excellent as Bamber, capturing the arrogance that led him to believe he could get away with the murders, while Bonas is terrific as the vulnerable and heavily medicated Sheila.
That ten-minute stretch in the morgue was hard to watch. The scene at the end, with a reluctant vet putting down a dog, was harder still. To those like me who remember the case well, it's mesmerising.
Is it possible [Freddie] Fox might be too good an actor for this show - a rather dingy true-crime nothingness with an exciting cast, but no script and nothing to say about the world or our place in it?
There was no sensationalism here, minimal background music (strangely effective - others should try it) and the episode didn't end on a gaudy cliffhanger.
It is tastefully done: un-rushed where it might be fast-paced; careful rather than broad-brush. All the same, as I watched the first episode, I felt uneasy.