Recent serial killer stories have been about as warm as a Manhattan winter. In-depth character studies of deranged murderers are in vogue; they’re particularly killing it, pun intended, on television. On NBC, Mads Mikkelsen’s out Lecter-ing Sir Anthony Hopkins on the sublime Hannibal, playing the refined cannibal as a suave aristocrat ladies want to bed and guys want to take cooking lessons from; over in England, the BBC series The Fall finds the young, handsome Jamie Dornan (a.k.a. the new Robert Pattinson, thanks to Fifty Shades of Grey) breaking hearts as a loving father by day and strangling women as a sexually twisted killer by night.
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