Spiral, Series 8, BBC Four review - dark days in the City of Light | reviews, news & interviews Spiral, Series 8, BBC Four review - dark days in the City of Light Spiral, Series 8, BBC Four review - dark days in the City of Light Final series of the show that's more than just a 'policier' by Adam SweetingSunday, 10 January 2021 The discovery of a grotesque murder is the traditional way to begin a new series of Spiral, and this time around the cadaver belonged to a young Moroccan boy, nicknamed Shkun. He’d been beaten to death with an iron bar and stuffed into a laundromat washing machine.