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The stories of five young women who were tragically murdered in Ipswich in 2006.
Five Daughters
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A timely rewatch for one of the most sympathetic, heartfelt and decidedly, thankfully ungratuitous mini series based on a real life tragedy that there has ever been.
The BBC's dramatic reconstruction of the horrendous killing spree of Steve Wright in Ipswich 2006 is a benchmark of how to tell a story with sensitivity. Ironically, the actual factual journalistic coverage of the time was less sensitive, focusing on Wright's victims as merely 'prostitutes' rather than people; sisters, mothers, daughters. Since Ipswich it's unsurprising that such women are referred to as sex workers. Five Daughters never once consigns itself to presenting the victims as simply that. It is to writer Stephen Butchard, and director Philippa Lowthorpe (responsible for the original and excellent…
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One of the best UK true crime tv miniseries.
Tells the story in a sensitive, respectable manner, w/o any gratuitous
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The sensitive handling of this horrific killing spree that rocked the small historic Suffolk Town in 2006 can be credited to the focus on the humanity and vulnerability of the cowardly killer's victims, which contrasts the despicable media coverage at the time which so cruelly labelled them as mere prostitutes, as if blaming them for being in the position they were in that made them the target of the so called Suffolk Strangler and removing them of any individual character. This isn't a generic police procedural, it is a drama about the victims, how they were let down and given such a depressing lot in life before having it cut short in a brutal fashion. Its haunting impact will linger on long after I've seen it.