In the Footsteps of Killers

[user77hjjy]

Anyone watching this?

I feel it's over dramatised.

They covered Suzy Lamplugh in the latest episode.
The constant phone conversations between the two; "What are you going to ask Suzy's brother?"

They are clearly not go ng to find out anything of significance in this episode.

[JaneJeffer]

I don’t get how they concluded that Rita knew her killer.

[cosmopolitanplease]

It's a really weird format and idea, and really cheapened by the forced urgency and drama.

So odd having Emilia Fox on it, even though I like her. It's like making a hard-hitting medical documentary and getting one of the cast of Doctors to present it.

[dayswithaY]

I carried on watching just for the hilarious reactions and fake urgent phone calls. If it wasn't for the fact that they are dealing with real people's pain then it would be up there with Alan Partridge.

The criminology guy turns up on every single Channel 5 show about serial killers. Emilia should know better, it feels exploitative.

If they wanted to shine a light on unsolved crime then why choose Suzy Lamplugh - there's already a documentary on Sky which covers the bag thrown in the canal - hardly new information.

[AdobeWanKenobi]

Cringeworthy and frankly an insult to the victims and their families. Awful program.

[Buggerthebotox]

Didn't Emilia Fox do something on Jack the Ripper quite recently (admittedly slightly more tasteful than this and with some interesting possible new theories so not really in the same vein).?

I'm not keen on the "talking head as expert" style of documentary anyway but this is a tawdry, tactless step too far IMHO.

Wonder how the victims' families are feeling about it?

[RickiTarr]

@MaBroon21

Oh it’s him. Nuff said

Why. I usually enjoy the things he’s in. Is there a background story I’m not aware of.

TBF, he’s probably appeared on better quality stuff as he’s gone along, like a lot of people on TV, but I remember turning some of the early stuff off feeling a bit tainted. Maybe it’s just that I expect more from the “expert” on screen, IDK.

This one doesn’t sound great, though.

[RickiTarr]

Maybe it’s personal taste or maybe I have a long memory, I don’t know, but I think he started out on cable (at least that’s where I saw him when I was pregnant with DC1) and has had a ~25 year career now appearing in anything at all that’s crime related, good, shite or indifferent. He’s got rich doing it and I don’t quite like his manner. Bit too tabloid for an academic, for me. He just seems to enjoy it all a tad too much.

[Spied]

@RickiTarr

Have I missed something?

[MaBroon21]

Oh it’s him. Nuff said

Why. I usually enjoy the things he’s in. Is there a background story I’m not aware of.

[Bibidy]

Yes I thought the same, it's a very weird format and all feels very forced and acted.

I don't understand why Emilia Fox is even on it?? Apart from being in Silent Witness what on earth does she know about crime and criminology? Very strange choice.

[RickiTarr]

@Spied

It's absolute cringe.
Up until this show I really respected Dr.Wilson.

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Oh it’s him. Nuff said.

[MaBroon21]

It was embarrassingly awful and I’m confused as to why Dr. Wilson became involved with this drivel.

[RickiTarr]

I haven’t seen it. I did wonder about having a look on catch up.

You’ve got to be so careful about how you tackle True Crime or else you tip into something slightly exploitative or sensationalist. I can’t say I’m completely won over by this thread.

[Spied]

It's absolute cringe.
Up until this show I really respected Dr.Wilson.

[Bumzoo]

It's so bad it's like a comedy but the murders aren't funny at all

And as for the bloke, well I think if there was a prize for faux shock and stating the obvious he'd win first prize hands down.

[purpleme12]

Just not natural

[purpleme12]

I watched episode 1 last week of this and pretty much agree with what everyone says her. Decided not to continue with it.
Dramatised and really wierdly
Very staged when it shouldn't be

[Locationlocationfan]

I just came over here now to see if there was a thread on this. We recorded the Lamplugh episode and watched about 30 minutes tonight before we had to switch off. It was so obviously staged, all the running whilst on the phone (why?), and talk of coming right over with important news. Awful acting from both of them and nothing new it seemed to me.
I hate to point out to Emilia Fox that she isn’t a detective, and in fact also isn’t a pathologist. And being an actor doesn’t qualify you to investigate cold cases.

[wewereliars]

I think it's very poor. They interviewed the mother and brother of one of the boys missing in the last episode. There was no point at all to it, and can only have been very painful for them. The mother appeared very vulnerable.

The programme cheapens everyone in it IMHO apart of course from the desperate relatives.

[Twinkie01]

Utterly pointless programmes. I think they weren't very respectful to the deceased or the loved ones of the deceased by shooting it in such a ridiculously dramatic way. Found absolutely nothing worthwhile out either.

That Dr is the George Clark of these sort of programmes and I feel that Emelia Fox has cheapened herself being involved with this clap trap.

[HollowTalk]

And why didn't the man with the bag wait until the other guy was out of sight before chucking it in?

[HollowTalk]

I watched this. I couldn't understand why the guy, having seen someone lurking around at 5 am and throwing a bag (turned into a suitcase) into the canal, wouldn't report that to the police anyway. Nobody would normally throw a suitcase into the canal at 5 am!

[Tangledtresses]

Oh my it was awful... all those terrible phone conversations, with long pauses amd her stunned face and he wasn't much better!! 😂 and then They ended up near where I used to live tbf a body would've washed up years ago! They dredge that canal all the time

[PastMyBestBeforeDate]

The subjects are interesting but the presentation is terrible. We watched it last week but DH can't be persuaded to watch another. I recorded it but I'm not sure I'll bother.