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  • BBC One
  • Jan 3, 2022
  • BBC One
  • Jan 3, 2022
The Barking Murders

Summary The three-part miniseries from Neil McKay and Jeff Pope focuses on the Anthony Walgate (Tim Preston), Gabriel Kovari (Jakub Svec), Daniel Whitworth (Leo Flanagan), and Jack Taylor (Paddy Rowan), who were killed by Stephen Port (Stephen Merchant) aka The Grindr Killer in 2014-15. [Premiered originally in the UK under the title Four Liv...

  • BBC One
  • Jan 3, 2022
  • BBC One
  • Jan 3, 2022
The Barking Murders
Season 1
Season Premiere: Jan 3, 2022
Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 6 Critic Reviews
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Summary The three-part miniseries from Neil McKay and Jeff Pope focuses on the Anthony Walgate (Tim Preston), Gabriel Kovari (Jakub Svec), Daniel Whitworth (Leo Flanagan), and Jack Taylor (Paddy Rowan), who were killed by Stephen Port (Stephen Merchant) aka The Grindr Killer in 2014-15. [Premiered originally in the UK under the title Four Liv...

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100
Dec 2, 2022
There is nothing gratuitous, and no sense of the killer being glamorised. This is true-crime drama done as well as it can be.
By Anita Singh FULL REVIEW
80
Dec 2, 2022
Like Anne on ITV this is a quality drama about bereaved mothers fighting for justice for their dead children, the final thing they can do for them.
By Carol Midgley FULL REVIEW
80
Dec 2, 2022
n less sensitive hands, a case like this could lend itself to prurience or melodrama, but Neil Mackay’s script and David Blair’s direction deftly avoid these traps. Four Lives doesn’t linger on the crimes themselves, but balances the events leading up to them with the fallout.
By Ed Cumming FULL REVIEW
80
Dec 2, 2022
Ultimately, Four Lives was an emotive tribute to a mother’s determination to achieve justice for her son. If Merchant’s Port showed us the worst in humanity, Smith’s raw and honest turn ensured the focus was on the young men whose futures were so horrifically stolen.
By Ed Power FULL REVIEW
80
Dec 2, 2022
If you go into The Barking Murders with the right frame of mind, it’s a tense and emotional drama about Stephen Port’s victims and their families.
By Joel Keller FULL REVIEW
60
Dec 2, 2022
The drama does a good job of making the victims – Anthony Walgate, Gabriel Kovari, Daniel Whitworth, Jack Taylor (portrayed with depth, vigour and sweetness by Tim Preston, Jakub Svec, Leo Flanagan and Paddy Rowan, respectively) – live again. ... Beyond that, and despite the usual great work of Sheridan Smith (as Anthony’s mother, Sarah) and others, the drama never catches fire.
By Lucy Mangan FULL REVIEW

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