A Friend, A Murderer Review 2026 Tv Show Series Cast Crew Online
In the first episode, one of the members of the perpetrator’s friend group, Amanda, is interviewed ten years after the first of those crimes, the murder of a 17-year-old girl, whom the producers have decided not to identify. The girl’s disappearance sent the young women of Korsør into a panic. She disappeared in July, 2016, and hundreds of townspeople volunteered to search for her.
We hear from Jane Valstead, who was was the volunteer search coordinator, about the intensity of that search and the fear that enveloped the town as the weeks and months passed. In one incident, a woman recorded her neighbor through a brick garage wall after hearing what she thought was a female voice calling for help.
The girl’s body was found on Christmas Day, but a suspect was still elusive. But, as Amanda says, the man that generated all the fear was “right next to me.”
There’s a certain awkwardness about A Friend, A Murderer that we couldn’t put our finger on while watching the first episode. There is a disclaimer at the beginning of the episode that mentions that all victims’ identities are kept anonymous. So the filmmakers really had to do some gymnastics to connect viewers with the teenager that disappeared and whose body was eventually found after five months.
But the story isn’t about that particular crime, which isn’t apparent unless you’re really paying attention. There’s a reason why we hear extensively from Amanda, talking about her close friendships from her teenage years and the fear that she and all teen girls in the town felt as the missing girl’s case was investigated. While we had an inkling that the story was really about how the killer was one of Amanda’s closest friends, that aspect of the story wasn’t introduced until the very end of the episode.
We’re let at the end of the episode wondering if the story is going to start distancing itself from the victims and examine how this brutal killer was hiding in plain sight and how his friends felt when they found out the truth. We’re not sure that the feelings of non-victims are more important than the thoughts and feelings of the victims’ families, but we do concede that the “my best friend was a monster” angle is good story fodder.
