Des review – David Tennant excels as a perfectly ordinary serial killer – The Guardian

I mean it as the highest praise when I say that Des, the three-part ITV dramatisation of the crimes of Dennis Nilsen, is absolutely horrible. There is an almost visible miasma enveloping every scene, across three nights this week. Of evil, of sadness, of bleak loss and of awful, unwanted knowledge. The first episode opens in 1983, the year Nilsen was caught (if thats not too active a phrasing for what the police actually did) with news footage of the 80s homelessness crisis, among whose victims …

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