Netfix has a particular interest in real cases, and those that arouse interest in trying to understand the dark plots they hide. He did it with the docuseries “Conversations with murderers”, which after its first season focused on the femicide Ted Bundy, will premiere a second part about John Wayne Gacy. And now, with “Jimmy Savile: A British Horror Story.”
The documentary addresses the controversial figure of Jimmy Savile, who began his career in the media as a disc jockey, until becoming one of the most famous personalities on television in the United Kingdom. However, what his audience did not know was the perverse mechanism he executed towards minors, which was disseminated in depth after his death (2011). In 2013, a report published jointly by the British Child Abuse Prevention Association, the NSPCC, and the Metropolitan Police, brought together complaints to Savile, ranging from 1955 to 2009. It is estimated that the cases of children and adolescents were around 500 and even more.
Throughout only two episodes but loaded with the intention that comes with a case like this, Netflix develops the facets of the presenter, analyzed with unpublished interviews and valuable archival material.
The docuseries is directed by the filmmaker Rowan Deacon with a focus on developing the plot of cover-up, fame, spectacularization and silences around a figure who shook his hands and was even decorated by officials and personalities of great political power such as Margaret Thatcher, Lady Di and Prince Charles, the Beatles and even Pope John Paul II.
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