- Network: Netflix
- Series Premiere Date: May 14, 2025
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Fred And Rose West: A British Horror Story does a good job of utilizing the audio and video recordings that are the docuseries’ centerpiece, while not getting in the weeds of what is a very complex story about the Wests and their victims.
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At times, you can almost see the joins where they bolted the thing together – some of the interview footage is evidently old and grainy, much more of it new and taken for this series. Yet none of the old footage is labelled as such.
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By the end, I could only feel that I’d rubbernecked at this grotesquely inhuman crime story all over again — not an altogether appealing feeling — but I sincerely hope the series gives the families some of that closure.
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Lazy, misleading and cynical Netflix package.
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The best that can be said about the latest three-part testimony to human depravity is that it is superficial.
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The minority unfamiliar with the Wests’ case might find Fred and Rose West: A British Horror Story interesting, but I felt grubby and prurient for once again delving into their “house of horrors”. The series’ saving grace is its attempts to do right by the victims’ loved ones.