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Myra Hindley: The Untold Story
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Nasty, salacious garbage. Exploitative, badly made, and featuring actors and interviewees with no self respect or standards. Channel Five at its worst.
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Bit harsh isnt it? do you know any of the actors or the interviewees? why is it no respect or standards to portray these people? These stories should never be allowed to be forgotten. There is still a child missing and people need to know that this things happens. We cant just let it be swept under the carpet
Are you actually watching it? My comment had nothing to do with the subject matter, it's about people grubbing around in other people's misery for an easy payday. It's not educational or informative when something is cobbled together using hearsay and (as the programme admits) using excerpts from Hindley's "memoirs" which were being written as a means of gaining sympathy at parole hearings.
There are several very well written books on the Moors' Murderers available. This adds nothing new at all.
Overall, I think the documentary is interesting and it looks at Hindley pretty objectively.
Yes I'm watching. It is about Myra so her view needs to be taken into account regardless of why she wrote it. The facts are facts and the show isnt changing that. The interviews are not hearsay either they are witness accounts.
I see a healthy conflict of opinion here, but no trolling. Aren't trolls people who turn up in threads, say something a bit pithy but don't actually contribute to the debate?
I refuse to watch things like this for precisely those reasons.
I was born in 1969, just after the case. Until age 15, I'd never even heard of the Moors Murderers.
Why should you ? It was a nasty case for a few weeks in 1966, then the world moved on and other news took centre stage, The Shepherd's Bush Murders, The World Cup, Aberfan
I wish the hell the TV companies would move on.
I completely disagree. I thought it was very interesting and informative, and gave me a lot of information about an angle of the case that I didn't know much about. Apart from anything else, it completely blew apart any idea that Myra Hindley was a vulnerable victim who was somehow manipulated or coerced by Brady; she was as psychotic and manipulative as he was, and equally devoid of empathy for other people.
I agree, the 'Myra' was far too sexy!
The HH Holmes programme was truly appalling with barber shop singers and pictures totally unrelated to the case! :mad:
No watched the first time round.
Actually, at the time they committed the crimes, from the pictures I've seen, they were a very aesthetically attractive couple.
I didn't realise these programmes were repeats, but then again they're not the sort of thing I would normally watch, I just caught it when channel hopping.
I disagree that they were an attractive couple. They most definitely were not in my eyes, not at any point, they were both very rough looking.