Black Bird (Apple TV+)
The Baby (Sky Atlantic/Now TV)
Ghislaine Maxwell: The Making of a Monster (Channel 4) | All 4
Storyville: In the Morning You Wake (to the End of the World) (BBC Four) | iPlayer
It’s been a week for scary monsters, some imagined, others horribly real. In the new Apple TV+ US true crime six-parter Black Bird, Paul Walter Hauser plays Larry Hall, suspected rapist and murderer of young girls. Hauser’s semolina pallor, vacant eyes and civil war re-enactment mutton chops seem almost too central-casting serial killer – until you check out Hall’s real-life mugshot and gape at the resemblance. Then there’s Hall’s voice: a submissive, quavering incel-whinny that turns forceful, lewd, suddenly exploding into rage a la Annie Wilkes in Misery.
