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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Vicky Jessop

The Crow Girl on Paramount+ review: this Bristol crime thriller is as bleak and harsh as a Nordic winter

Sophia Craven, played by Katherine Kelly - (Paramount+)

Just when the TV market seems like it’s approaching a Scandi noir saturation point, along comes a drama that makes you fall for the genre all over again – even if it has relocated the original Swedish story to the West Country.

Enter The Crow Girl: a series that is as dark, chilly and foreboding as a Nordic winter, with the camera filters to match. Bristol has never looked so unappealing – set in the depths of winter, it’s been transformed from a vibrant city into warren of bleak streets, where a serial killer could lurk around any corner.

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