Miniseries · BBC One Northern Ireland
Confessions of a Killer
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TV DNA
How Confessions of a Killer actually feels to watch, measured on the traits our editors track across every series.
Signature profile
Confessions of a Killer reads strongest on Serialized, Tension and Cliffhanger Intensity.
How much each hour depends on the one before it.
The sustained pressure the series keeps you under.
How often an episode ends on a hook you can't ignore.
The scale, internal logic and texture of the world.
How hard it is to stop after one episode.
How often the series is genuinely funny, by design.
Visual ambition — scale, craft and set-piece filmmaking.
How fully written and psychologically layered the ensemble is.
How much the series is designed to affect you.
The story
What it's about
Two stolen lives and a 'suicide pact' that never was. In previously unbroadcast tapes, a killer coldly recounts how he got away with a double murder for 18 years.
The craft
Key Crew
Directing, writing, production, camera, music and editing.
Executive production
- Jim O'HaganProducer
Direction
- Michael FanningDirector
Where to watch
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