It is hard to believe that anyone could make a fascinating true story like this with a first class cast that included Timothy Spall and Anne Reid this dull and lacking in pace but BBC succeeded. It was disjointed and missed out on so many salient factors surrounding this case. Why did they omit the fact that Ben Fields had a notebook with the names of over 100 potential victims or that he conned the woman out of £27000 to pay for medical treatment for a fictitious brother? Surely facts worth including. The cast, with the exception of the actress who played the niece who seemed to have the ability to display only one emotion, were excellent despite bring burdened by such a pedantic script and such uninspired direction. A pale shadow of the dramatisations of the Wests, Brady and Hindley and similar true stories and a million miles removed from the likes of the brilliant Little Boy Blue. An opportunity sadly missed.
Review of The Sixth Commandment
