The Chemistry of Death: Criticism of the Simon Beckett Series Pilot

Created: 01/13/2023 14:53

Still from The Chemistry of Death © Paramount+

With the British thriller series The Chemistry of Death, Paramount+ has secured the rights to one of the most popular genre book series of recent years.

The pilot episode starts off with a suspense and scores with a fantastic Harry Treadaway as forensic anthropologist David Hunter. 

For friends of good thriller novels, the name David Hunter has been a guarantee for exciting genre literature for many years.

The debut about the British police advisor, who actually retired but always helps to solve the most complicated cases, was released in 2006.

The series, which now consists of seven volumes, is written by Simon Beckett, a journalist and author from Sheffield in Great Britain who is known for his deep insights into the subject of forensic anthropology.

These are based, among other things, on a visit to the world-famous Anthropological Research Facility at the University of Tennessee.

It was foreseeable that such a success story would eventually find its way onto screens in serial form.

Now Paramount+ has secured the rights to the experiences of the sometimes tragic hero from Beckett's novels and adapted them into a mini-series.

And compared to the pilot episode, it's implemented really well.

The 45-minute debut promises a six-part full of suspense in a small English village in East Anglia, where people live with rough edges and where terrible things happen.

You can read whether it's worth switching on and what exactly it's about at serial junkies.de.