TV series

The Long Shadow

2023 · 1 season

A grimly absorbing procedural that immerses you in the painstaking, flawed hunt and its heavy human cost.

Tagline: The biggest manhunt in British history.
Overview: Dramatizing one of the most infamously notorious and shocking serial killer cases in the world, the hunt for Peter Sutcliffe, commonly dubbed the Yorkshire Ripper, between October 1975 and January 1981, South Yorkshire police undertook the biggest manhunt in British criminal history. The search for Sutcliffe lasted five years, involved over a thousand officers and changed the way the British police worked forever.
How it feels: Bleak, tense, earnest and melancholic. Slow-burning and needs your attention.
About: Crime, justice, isolation, guilt
Content: Strong violence. Mild gore, sexual content and language.
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Tone: bleakstrength 3 of 3
tensestrength 2 of 3
earneststrength 2 of 3
melancholicstrength 1 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: crime
justice
isolation
guilt
power
Places: small town
workplace
countryside
Era: period
Audience: adult
Form: true story
procedural
serialised
Content intensity: Gore mild
Language mild
Violence strong
Sex mild