Anyone watching 'Maxine' on Channel 5?

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I watched the first one last night - wondered what people thought. The acting seems a bit over the top; if Ian and Maxine had behaved that suspiciously in real life, I would have thought they'd have been arrested immediately.

This does portray a very complex, dysfunctional relationship between Huntley and Carr.

Why did you open a thread about them then?

I’m not sure if the bitch has finally realised the truth about him or is just trying to save her own skin?

I think the end but where she said 'no comment' was intended to leave that ambiguous - only she will ever know the truth.

It’s a dramatised version of events.
I bet you have watched many films/dramas based on true events.
Not all pleasant to watch either.

It's been handled sensitively in that Holly and Jessica and their parents don't appear in it and nor does the murder.
The opinion of people about the series who've never seen it is pretty worthless

I thought she was a bit OTT but found the actor playing Huntley utterly chilling, in a really understated way. I don’t normally watch stuff like that but because I remember it happening I kind of got drawn in…

At the end when the reporter tracked her down years later, and you could hear a child playing in the background, he asked her if she knew he had killed Holly and Jessica - her reply was ‘no comment’ do you think it was because she was wary of reporters, wary of possibly her new identity being found out or because she did know but didn’t want to say? (I appreciate this may not have actually happened)
I agree with the pp who said they would like to know what she is like now. The media suggests she is married with a child and her husband knows her past. I do find it interesting to ponder what kind of people they have turned into. Same with Mary Bell. Do they think about their actions much? Will they tell their children the truth? How much support/help have they received? (Whether you agree or not that they should have help and support)
I find it fascinating what makes people behave like this - and the more we find out then surely that helps looks for signs in people to reduce the chance it happening again in the future. Does that make sense?

'they both should be hung x'. That kiss is a bit incongruous.

I felt really sorry for the Headmaster. He hired him in good faith and asked someone else to do the reference checks. If the TV series is true to form.

The rubbish system where he could go freely between locations and jobs even though he had abused before is also to blame.

I do think Carr's continuing notoriety is due to her sex. If it had been Huntley's male best friend who'd given him a false alibi, there'd have been outrage at the time but by now, his name would probably have been forgotten.

You can’t be serious? What she did was heinous, it’s nothing to do with rhe fact she’s female. Good god.

What I am saying is that it would be heinous done by either sex, but because Carr is female, her notoriety has endured longer than it would have if she had been male.

Yes I agree. All his previous girlfriends have said he was abusive and coercive to them. She lied for him but wasn't even there when it happened and didn't think he'd done it. She is hated as much for lying for an abusive/coercive boyfriend as he is for murdering two girls which is ridiculous.

Never understood the hate for Maxine, she should never have lied to the police but that’s all she did. Bizarre really the media portrayed her as being a Myra.

In the drama series it was said that if she hadn’t lied, they’d have gotten him sooner, and maybe found the bodies sooner, preserving more evidence to discover how he killed them.

So the argument is that she did a heinous thing and people always remember heinous crimes?

Do they?

Do we remember Shaun Armstrong, who murdered a three year old in the early 90s? Or Colin Waite, or mark Buckley, or Phillip Powell, Colin Evans?

It isn’t how heinous the crime is (I don’t actually think MC’s was and the law agreed.) It’s generally how unusual it is and / or how much sympathy we feel for the victims.

Carr was convicted of perverting the course of justice - not murder. Naming male murderers who have been forgotten, while Carr, a woman guilty of a far lesser crime, is remembered, tends to support the notion that her sex played a part in her notoriety.

Erm. Yes

Sorry …

that was the point I was making. I was agreeing with you 😂

Apologies, @Anotherautumn I completely misread what you were saying there

There is also another docu on 5 about the soham murders, this shows the police tapes..,she seems so much younger than the actress protrayed her. The bit where she talks about making the roast dinner and she goes into this detail about how she cooks the beef on a Saturday night and Sunday morning he walks the dog.. a psychologist says this is her talking about her fantasy of a loving relationship and home. In reality she was away from him and gatecrashed a party in a pub.

Not for me it doesn’t, yes of course his crime was a Million times worse, but she prolonged the agony of those parents, stopping those little girls being found, and covered up for a murderer. She lied. To protect him. It’s nothing to do with her sex. I can’t believe you think otherwise, it’s shocking.

Floweryflora The really sad thing is that had she been at home that day those poor little girls would probably still be here.

Agree totally. And if she’d not lied then it’s likely they would have been found much sooner and their parents wouldn’t have had to suffer not knowing for so long. It’s just horrific.