In full boom of the True Crime series, we get a new title that focuses on a facet usually forgotten of this type of stories. Happy face (happy guy) It does not follow the victims, or the investigators who arrested the serial killer who killed eight women in the United States during the 90s. The series focuses on giving voice to someone who rarely has it in this type of stories: the criminal's daughter. The fact that the marriage formed by Robert y Michelle Kingcreators of The Good Wife and its Spin Off the Good Fight, appear in executive production provides a certain prestige, although the final result may be suffered by a too television format. In this case they have limited themselves to putting their name to sponsor the project and much of the weight rests on Melissa Moorethe protagonist of the story whose real life inspires the argument. In his day he made a podcast To tell his experience and that was the germ of this miniseries of eight episodes. From this Thursday it is already complete in SkyShowtime.
With fifteen years, Melissa discovered that her father, Keith Jespersonhe had been arrested as a main suspect of being a serial killer. At no time, it is to bleach these crimes, or present the friendly face of the criminal. From the beginning, it is made clear that She repudiates these murders. Despite this, both Melissa and his family have to load with the stigma of what their father did. The looks, the whispers behind them, the implicit questions … Did they know? Did they do something to wake up that dark side? Or will she take that same murderous seed in her genes? Melissa has maintained that hiddeneven to their own children, until its history comes to light. He has tried to rebuild his life away from his father's claws, although he continues to contact her from prison.
Paradoxically, it is not that he has been very far from the eye of the hurricane, since he works as Makeup maker on a True Crime report program. That professional environment serves to try to understand the inclination to evil and try to recognize if there is something inside her that can get her father's genetic heritage. His past allows him empathize with victims And understanding what they feel, so very usually their coworkers usually ask her to use her gifts to convince the victims to tell their story.
The story starts when her father contacts the program where Melissa works to confess a new crime for which she was never accused, but only imposes one condition: she will only do it if she is present. This is his way of forcing that the young woman's past comes to light and that all her surroundings know who her family really is. The dilemma for her is served, since by that murder, there is a person in prison about to be executed. To complicate history morethe victim's family does not want to hear about these new testsconvinced that the true murderer is already alep.
With the investigation of this new crime of the murderer of the happy face, the series shows the ecosystem that revolves around this industry. From the victims, to writers in search of success by interviewing murderers in prison, going through reluctant prosecutors to admit that they were wrong. By the way, these criminals have become celebrities with certain privileges within the prison. We have had very close examples with some very media murders in the Spanish press. Returning to the series, does the ease with which Keith access to mobile phones from his cell?
Dennis Quaid It is the best known star of the cast and embodies the murderer. For him, it is an opportunity to wear his most histrionic facet and put faces to him Jack Nicholsonas sometimes he likes to do. In the role of Mellissa we have Annaleigh AshfordMasters of Sex or American Crime Story actress, who embodies her first role here as an absolute protagonist. His character remembers in some aspects that of Alicia Florrickby the pressure of seeing exposed to public opinion the darkest aspects of his personal life. Lidia with feelings found to remember an childhood that, in theory, should have been happy and that was destroyed by the loss of innocence. Melissa has struggled to turn page and rebuild her life. This is the story of how he gets it. Although it is a closed story that ends in its last episodethe screenwriters have known how to keep enough letters in their sleeves to be able to tell new stories if someone decided to approve a second season.
