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Television · 2017
Dear Murderer
Dramatizing the flamboyant, high-stakes career of prominent Wellington barrister Mike Bungay QC, this five-part biographical series explores New Zealand's landmark mid-century criminal trials. Behind his courtroom theatricality and high-profile defenses—including the infamous 1974 Sutch Cold War espionage trial—lies a volatile personal life fueled by excess and inner turmoil.
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Full of wit, sadness and humour, the series reimagines his early history, his lusts, loves, career, and the outrageous legal and personal exploits that made the larger-than-life character a force to be reckoned with. Bungay’s determination to serve as a QC prevailed, in spite of his own actions, and regardless of his deteriorating health and growing pressure from those who were resentful of his celebrity. It would eventually see his demise.
NZ On Air on NZ On Air It’s further evidence that Screentime, the production house behind some of the best TVNZ 1 Sunday telefeatures (Resolve, Dear Murderer) in recent years, is the best in our business at this style right now. So much of that is down to the writing and plotting – this feels like a series crafted over a long period of time, interrogated and tested, lean in a way that too many of our recent dramas have felt out-of-shape.
Duncan Greive on The Spinoff Dear Murderer is likely to have somewhat less celebrity sizzle in the U.S. than it did last summer in its native New Zealand. It’s still an entertaining look at practicing law on a tightrope.
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