The Serpent: Too many flashbacks and flash-forwards
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Apr 5: The Serpent: Cast: Tahar Rahim, Jenna Coleman, Billy Howle, Ellie Bamber, Amesh Edireweera, Tim McInnerny, Mathilde Warnier, Aly Khan, Pravesh Rana, Darshan Jariwala, Direction: Tom Shankland; Rating: (three stars)
BY VINAYAK CHAKRAVORTY The Serpent starts off with vim and venom, slithers through the middle episodes with frenetic energy, before making a scrappy surge through the mire of its final episodes. The story of Charles Sobhraj had enough bite to leave its mark with a far more engaging piece had it not been for a convoluted tangle of flashbacks and flash-forwards.
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The Serpent: Too many flashbacks and flash-forwards
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The Serpent begins with a disclaimer that the true crime drama, which is based on the life and crimes of serial killer Charles Sobhraj, is only inspired by true events. Some of the names and circumstances have been changed both for dramatic purposes they’re trying to make some captivating television, you understand but also out of respect for Sobhraj’s very real victims and their families.
In real life, Sobhraj was accused of more than 20 murders throughout India, Thailand, Nepal, Turkey, and Iran in the 1970s but was never convicted of murder until 2004, reported the BBC at the time. Nicknamed “The Serpent,” Sobhraj was known to prey on young, usually Western travelers (and particularly women) who making their way along the “Hippie Trail” of the 1970s, or the overland route between Europe and South Asia that became popular for young backpackers in the 1960s and ’70s.
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