The Beast Must Die (2021)

Directed by

Dome Karukoski

Genre

crime

Country

United Kingdom

Length

1 season, 5 episodes

Rated

16

Rating

6.4 of 10 from 37 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A grieving mother believes a man caused her son's death in a car accident. She pretends to be a novelist to get close to his family and take revenge.

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What happens

The Beast Must Die is a British thriller television series based on the novel of the same name by Nicholas Blake, adapted for television by Gaby Chiappe. It centres on a mother's grief for her son who was killed in a car accident. She takes matters into her own hands by posing as a novelist to ingratiate herself into the family of the man whom she believes to be responsible for her son's death. The series premiered in the United Kingdom on BritBox on 27 May 2021, and ran for one series of 5 episodes until 17 June 2021. A second series was in development, titled A Sword In My Bones. ITVX, which absorbed Britbox, announced it would not proceed. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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