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Gritty pathos blurs with fantasy in a wrenching true-crime/love story

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JUST WHEN think you’ve seen every variation on the true-crime drama, along comes a fascinating and heart-breaking specimen like Susan Edwards, whose fragile psyche informs every frame of the visually inventive four-part factbased drama . The title is a bit of a pun, referring to the long-hidden secret that two bodies are buried in her dreadful parents’ Nottinghamshire backyard garden, in holes dug 15 years earlier by Susan’s devotedly milquetoast husband, Chris.

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