The Sunday Times - UK (2022-05-01)

THE BEST OF THE WEEK AHEAD SEVEN-DAY LISTINGS FOR MAY 1-7

Already the subject of an

identically titled 13-part

documentary available on

Netflix, the 2001 death of

Kathleen Peterson (pictured

below with her husband) has

now been transformed into

this detailed eight-part drama.

Colin Firth stars as Michael

Peterson, a crime novelist

suspected of killing his wife

(Toni Collette) after her

bloodied body is found in

their North Carolina home.

Firth is compelling — although

oddly unrecognisable — as

the grieving husband with

secrets to spare, his position

becoming untenable as more

evidence about his life is

dusted down by police and

his family start to question his

version of events. Unfolding

at the stately pace of Making

a Murderer, Maggie Cohn and

Antonio Campos’s series

promises queasy true-crime

detail rendered with flair.

The soundtrack, however,

might provide its own kind of

spoiler: the Mills Brothers’

1944 hit You Always Hurt

The One You Love makes a

strong appearance.

Victoria Segal

THE WEEK AHEAD

Snooker World

Championship (Today-

Monday, BBC2, 1pm/7pm)

Prisoner C33

(Today, BBC4, 9pm)

The Colour Of Care

(Monday, Smithsonian, 8pm)

Sex, Mind And Menopause

(Monday, C4, 9pm)

Elections 2022

(Thursday, BBC1, 11.40pm;

Friday, BBC1, 1.45pm)

PICK OF

THE WEEK

THE STAIRCASE

Thursday,
Sky Atlantic, 9pm/10.20pm

Spartacus

Monday, ITV4, 2.10pm

Stanley Kubrick’s 1960 film

about the ancient world’s

most famous rebel slave is a

match for any other vintage

swords-and-sandals movie

in its epic grandeur, and it

outdoes most of them in its

script. Shunning the religious

schmaltz of Ben-Hur and

similar films, it tells a story

of power and politics. Kirk

Douglas’s fierce performance

embodies the movie’s spirit.

FILM OF

THE WEEK

The Documentary

Tuesday,

BBC World Service, 8.06pm

Jonathan Glancey travels to

Cairo to report on the Grand

Egyptian Museum, due to open

in November, which will be the

world’s largest archaeological

museum. Can it put Cairo

back on the global tourism

map, heal cultural divisions

and restore national pride?

Undone

Amazon

When Kate Purdy and

Raphael Bob-Waksberg’s

family drama arrived in 2019

it felt thrillingly unique, a

dreamlike animated tale of a

daycare worker (Rosa Salazar)

whose life is turned inside

out after meeting her father’s

ghost (Bob Odenkirk). Season

two may lack that freshness

but it continues to dazzle with

its interweaving timelines and

narrative inventiveness.

RADIO PICK

OF THE WEEK

DEMAND PICK

OF THE WEEK

Real life becomes a drama

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