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THE SERIAL KILLERS WIFE. Thur 26 to Sun 29th dec - ch5 - 9pm TV PACE. NO SPOILERS

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Blondeshavemorefun · 20/12/2024 23:16

The Serial Killer’s Wife is a four-part series starting on Channel 5 and running nightly from Thursday December 26 2024 at 9.pm, finishing on Sunday December 29 2024.

So a good drama treat to tune in on for on Boxing Day

So as on ch 5 you can’t binge it 😛😛😛

The Serial Killer's Wife is a thriller based on the bestselling novel and stars Annabel Scholey, Jack Farthing and Luke Treadaway.

Based on a bestseller, The Serial Killer’s Wife stars The Split’s Annabel Scholey as Beth Fairchild, a woman whose idyllic world falls apart when her husband is arrested for murder.

This suspense-packed thriller series also stars Jack Farthing as Beth’s seemingly straight-laced husband Tom, while Luke Treadaway is Tom’s best friend and Beth’s confidant, Adam.

At first, trusting wife Beth is convinced that her husband has been wrongly accused but, as she delves into his affairs, she begins to wonder how well you can really know the person you love.

The Serial Killer's Wife is set in a picturesque English village, and begins with Beth Fairchild (Annabel Scholey) preparing a surprise birthday party for her husband Tom (Jack Farthing), who is the much-loved local GP.

However, the celebrations come to an abrupt end when the police arrive and, in front of most of the village, arrest Tom for the murder of his former assistant.

Outraged, Beth is convinced of her husband’s innocence but she soon makes some shocking discoveries that make her question her judgment.

As she confides in Tom’s best friend, Adam (Luke Treadaway) Beth realises her perfect life isn’t quite what it seems...

Annabel Scholey leads the cast of The Serial Killer's Wife playing Beth Fairchild, whose husband Tom is accused of murder.

A red-faced Beth believes her husband is innocent, but the longer Tom is held for questioning, the more side-eyes, stares and whispers she must endure around town.

Then, when other deaths are linked to Tom and the Fairchilds’ private lives become headline news, Beth begins to do her own digging into her husband’s past and soon finds herself questioning everything she’s ever known.

Will she stand by her man to protect her family and reputation?

"Beth takes her roles as a mother and a wife very seriously, much like her position in the community," says Annabel Scholey, 39, who also starred in BBC1 drama The Sixth Commandment.

"Appearances are very important to her, so she’s mortified when the police interrupt Tom’s 40th. She loves her husband and will do anything to defend him, for better or worse, but she feels like her life is crumbling.

"Their marriage is very complicated, too. They’re soulmates on many levels, and I think their attraction for each other verges on obsession, but Tom is quite dominating.

Ultimately, Beth has to work out why she’s allowed that to happen and if she’s OK with it.

"I don’t think you’ll guess what’s coming. There are no obvious goodies and baddies, although Beth is a scary part to play. I always think if a script scares you, though, you should do it, and this is exciting, sexy and dangerous."

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LilyPAnderson · 01/02/2025 01:24

Iloveagoodnap · 03/01/2025 18:11

I enjoyed this although I would have preferred her to have gone to the police with the ex's location but also with all the evidence on Adam so that he could be arrested and put away. Is she just going to let someone discover his body and hope everyone thinks he fell off the cliff in a tragic accident? Or that he couldn't live with the things his friend had done and killed himself?

Was he just a proper psychopath who killed women when he had the opportunity or was it all meant to be about being jealous of Tom? So he killed anyone who Tom had an affair with, killed his wife when he discovered her infidelity with Tom and then married Tom's ex because he just wanted everything Tom had? Including his house. Before I learned he was the murderer I thought it was weird he wanted to live in the house that had belonged to the man who (presumed at the time) murdered his wife. But as he was the one who did all the killings I suppose also wanting the big house made sense.

I also thought main woman's accent seemed a bit too posh for someone who grew up poor in a caravan. I know anyone from any walk of life can fall on hard times but her mum didn't have that accent and she's unlikely to have gone to a posh school. So unlikely for her to grow up sounding like she'd been privately educated. So not the actress I would have chosen for that part.

I was quite surprised to see so many interesting looking drama series on My5 so I'm definitely going to try some more. I like the limited amount of episodes too. Some series go on a bit long. After I finished this series I then binge watched Too Good To Be True and enjoyed that too.

I went to a really rough school and many people spoke Jamaican patois. The teachers were hippies and didn't think teaching people to speak proper English was essential. Yet people tell me I'm well spoken. Reason for that was because I bought books on how to improve my grammar and punctuation after I left school, and also listened to online dictionaries about pronunciation. I went to a college of FE after school with all kinds of people, and some of the posh ones would pick up on how I spoke and I felt embarrassed, so decided to improve.

LilyPAnderson · 01/02/2025 01:26

I think British dramas don't tend to drag on for too long. Like that USA one about the teacher who went into making drugs. I could have just watched the start, one in the middle and the last episode for the main point of the story. The rest was mindless violence.

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