Miniseries · BBC Three
The Beauty Queen and the Catfish
Who's in it
Cast
The principal ensemble across the run of the series.
The Nutevio profile
TV DNA
How The Beauty Queen and the Catfish actually feels to watch, measured on the traits our editors track across every series.
Signature profile
The Beauty Queen and the Catfish 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
When a small-town beauty queen suspects the doctor she has been messaging is not who he says he is, she turns detective to catch one of the UK's most prolific catfish.
The craft
Key Crew
Directing, writing, production, camera, music and editing.
Direction
- Alana McVerryDirector
Cinematography
- Alana McVerryDirector of Photography
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