nighthouse66-1 I am surprised that this series got so many positive reviews. Perhaps I am completely spoiled by Emlyn Williams' book "Beyond Belief", which is the definitive book on the case, written in the late sixties. It is profoundly eerie, giving you a sense of "being there" that this series completely seems to ignore. It feels like a TV movie, with an almost total lack of real atmosphere. And if ANY case deserves to scare you, or has the power to, this one does. Brady and Hindley were truly, and I believe happily, evil. They exulted in it. The actor playing Brady could have been used to much greater effect, and is the only one in the film that really delivers. The period production lacks HORRIBLY- this is comparable to some VH-1 ham-handed treatment of the sixties where everyone is wearing headbands and peace signs. Things like this give a film heft, gravity, and atmosphere. And this has none, in my opinion.

disdressed12 this fact based movie about Myra Hindley and Ian Brady,Britain's notorious child killers of the 1960's is sure to send chills down your spine.it doesn't sensationalize the murders.in fact,most of the murders themselves are not shown.instead,we are shown the bizarre behaviour of Hindley and Brady and their sadistic leanings.one murder is shown,but it's not explicit or graphic.but the way it is shown is horrifying.it's hard to say which of the two was the initiator of the crimes,or if both played equal parts.they both are shown as manipulators and without remorse.The acting is stellar,form Maxine Peake as Hindley and Sean Harris as Brady.but equally effective are Joanne Frogatt as Hindley's sister Maureen ans Matthew Mcnulty as Maureen's husband.the rest of the supporting players are also exceptional,too numerous to mention here,although i have to mention Joe Costigna as DCI Joe Mounsey.this is a first class production all the way.it broken my heart,and will stay with me for a long time. 10/10

T Y This gets off to a poor start by losing its nerve, and becoming a very conventional sermon. Of all the ways to tell the story of the Moors murders, they chose a police procedural; a genre that dull-witted citizens can watch in their safe living rooms without being exposed to anything particularly troubling; and learn some lesson they can usually forget by lunch tomorrow. In order to take viewer identification off of Brady and Hindley, we arrive late in the sequence of things and are offered instead the protagonist/viewpoint of David Smith, a belated accomplice. 4 out of 5 of the crimes of Brady and Hyndley are already over. And the movie is too polite to name their grotesque acts.It would have helped if they specified their deeds, and made the two as grotesque and depraved as they actually were. Instead any detail that would drive home the horror and revulsion of their crimes is lost in deference to 'good taste.' The movie keeps hedging its premise. It flirts with banality in offering details like a lisping police sergeant, but providing almost no detail about the murders. This is a movie where we spend maybe 2 hours with the killers, and zero time with any of the 5 victims. Just what Brady and Hindley needed, more exposure. The most they can spare for the victims is a few images before the crawl. Bizarre. It's well-acted, but mostly ends up being a bland, forgettable study of police work, rather than the vivid, horrifying portrayal of evil that is now long overdue. Audiences will still need to ask their older relatives, precisely what it is Brady and Hindley did to deserve their exceptional shunning.

Trapper_John I was quite young [7 - 9 years of age] when these events took place, and remember the dreadful feelings that were prevalent. Before this drama was screened, I was not sure it would be possible to dramatize such an horrific episode without it coming across in a way that either glossed over or overemphasized many aspects. However, I feel this was a well pitched production. For me it has gone a small way towards dealing with something that has been uncomfortable to think about in recent times, when those involved were for one reason or another in the news. I don't think it would be appropriate for the full details to be made public in a television programme, but hopefully there was enough to be informative yet not too distressing. I hope the families concerned did not find the drama hurtful, and that it didn't reopen deep wounds for them - probably a vain hope, unfortunately.