Keeley Hawes and Freddie Highmore lead the forged of crime thriller The Murderer.
Created by Harry and Jack Williams (The Vacationer), the sequence follows a retired murderer residing in Greece who’s reunited along with her estranged son. As he seeks solutions about her previous, they each discover themselves at risk when her historical past catches up along with her.
Different forged members embody Gina Gershon, Shalom Brune-Franklin, Jack Davenport, Alan Dale, Gerald Kyd, Devon Terrell, Richard Dormer and David Dencik.
Together with starring within the Amazon present, Hawes and Highmore function government producers. All six episodes had been launched on July 25, 2025.
Who composed the soundtrack for The Murderer?
The present’s rating is by Dominik Scherrer, who beforehand labored with Harry and Jack Williams on The Vacationer, The Lacking and Baptiste. He additionally composed the soundtrack to 2012’s Ripper Road.
Talking about The Murderer’s soundtrack to NME, Scherrer mentioned he needed the rating to replicate the oscillating tone within the present’s script.
“A number of the enjoyable and pleasure within the script is within the excessive contrasts,” Scherrer mentioned. “A darkish, thriller-ish scene with a number of peril shall be adopted abruptly by hilarious conversations on a Mediterranean seaside, for instance. Quite than smoothing this over, I needed the rating to intensify this, because it brings power to these moments.
“Apart from creating fashionable motion cues, utilizing a number of analogue synths blended with a stay orchestra, a key affect was Fifties Italian pop – just like the form of music Morricone was arranging and producing earlier than he began to attain the movies we all know so nicely now. The hovering string traces, blended with twangy guitars and some unique devices, give The Murderer a form of retro, glamorous Mediterranean really feel that’s nonetheless cool.”
He added: “The sequence is about in many alternative nations, and I needed to magnify the exoticism. I spent a couple of days in a studio in Athens, recording dulcimers, and plucked and bowed Center Japanese and Mediterranean devices, which seem in a couple of moments within the last rating.”
What different songs seem within the present?
A handful of needle drops are scattered throughout the present’s six episodes, together with a pop basic from Kylie Minogue and Jason Donovan. You may take a look at all of the songs under.
Episode one
‘Agapi Kalokairini’ – Alexia Vassiliou
‘Favorite Type Of Lady’ – Gotts Road Park, Flikka
Episode two
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Episode three
‘Pjesa 7 (laveri)’ – TAJçIDO
‘Nuk ka pshtim’ – Boyard Bes
‘God’s Gonna Reduce You Down’ – John Grant
Episode 4
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Episode 5
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Episode six
‘Particularly For You’ – Kylie Minogue and Jason Donovan