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- 1. Episode 1 Jan 1, 2021
- A diplomat investigates the disappearance of two backpackers in Bangkok.
- 2. Episode 2 Jan 3, 2021
- Marie-Andrée Leclerc leaves her life behind for the love of Charles Sobhraj.
- 3. Episode 3 Jan 10, 2021
- Adventure brings Dominique Renelleau to Kanit House where he gets caught in a trap.
The Serpent is a 2021 British crime drama television serial developed by Mammoth Screen and commissioned by the BBC. The eight-part limited series is a co-production between BBC One and Netflix. It is based on the crimes of French serial killer Charles "the Serpent" Sobhraj, who murdered young tourists from 1975 to 1976.
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The Serpent is an American crime drama limited series. The series is a co-production between BBC One and Netflix. It is a dramatization of the 1976 arrest of Charles Sohraj, who was an infamous serial killer and fraudster of the 1970s who preyed on tourists in Southeast Asia. It premiered on BBC...
The Serpent: With Tahar Rahim, Billy Howle, Jenna Coleman, Ellie Bamber. The twisting, real-life story of Charles Sobhraj, a murderer, thief and seductive master of disguise, who was a hidden darkness in the mid-70's on Asia's hippie trail.
- Jean Bentley
- The first sign this series is going to be a time-twisting journey comes in the opening seconds, which see a late-middle-aged Sobhraj in a TV interview from 1997 where he essentially flaunts the fact that he probably got away with all his crimes, before jumping into the actual story.
- This episode begins in early 1976, with Herman and Angela continuing to investigate the deaths of their Dutch backpackers, but it also jumps back and forth to a few different points in 1975 to reveal more about how Marie-Andrée and Charles first met and how the Canadian woman so easily fell into his trap.
- Okay, so, the opening date for this episode is November 20, 1973, but it's really just to show us that's when Dominique left his home in France to travel the world.
- If the previous three episodes didn't get you increasingly irritated by the random jumps through time, this episode begins with a boy discovering a burned body in Nepal on December 23, 1975 before skipping ahead three months, then returning back to December 1975 a couple minutes later.
Overview. The remarkable story of how murderer Charles Sobhraj was captured. As the chief suspect in unsolved murders of young Western travellers across India, Thailand and Nepal’s ‘Hippie Trail’ in 1975 and 1976, Sobhraj had repeatedly slipped from the grasp of authorities worldwide to become Interpol's most wanted man, with arrest ...
The Serpent is a limited series developed by Mammoth Screen and commissioned by the BBC. It follows the life and crimes, and the eventual capture, of the French serial killer and fraudster Charles Sobhraj (Tahar Rahim) and his accomplice Marie Andrée Leclerc ( Jenna Coleman ) as they are pursued by a mild-mannered Dutch diplomat, Herman ...
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