'London Kills' writer Paul Marquess on creating a dark murder mystery, minus the gore and graphic violence
Acorn TV's first ever murder mystery show, 'London Kills' has the right to brag about a lot of things, other than its stellar cast. There's thrill, there are complicated, twisted, staged murders, but most importantly there's tension - and thankfully not the sexual kind yet, that the genre's shows have been seasoned with, in the past - all of it making for quite the standout among other shows in its genre.
But what the show also packs aplenty, is crisp, impeccably nuanced writing that from the very get-go creates an aura of something far more wicked than what meets the eye. Be it the main characters, who are all detectives, yet couldn't be more different from each other, or be it the plot revolving around a new murder with each episode - there's always that multilayered eeriness about what awaits us, and for that, we have writer Paul Marquess to thank.