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Best known for her roles in Game of Thrones and The Spanish Princess, British actress Charlotte Hope has received rave reviews for her portrayal as SA’s first serial killer profiler for Showmax’s Catch Me A Killer, which began airing last Thursday.

Catch Me A Killer is based on the memoir of  Micki Pistorius, who was South Africa’s first serial killer profiler in real life. Hope says she is not shocked by the excellent reception to the show as audiences all over the world seem fascinated by serial killers, and the people who hunt them.

“The fact that these serial killers and victims were all real people, and the crimes happened so recently, shocks me,” she told Independent Media Lifestyle.

“This show goes further, it’s a ‘whydunit’ more than a ‘whodunit’.”

The 10-part series follows Hope as a newly qualified forensic psychologist who is out to catch some of  South Africa’s most infamous killers such as the Cleveland Killer, also known as The Imperial Avenue Murderer, who was convicted in 2011 of killing 11 women.

Critics are especially praising Hope’s portrayal of the ‘underdog’ as during the time the show is set in, most of the profilers dealing with serial killers were male, and even then the ‘psychology of a killer’ was met with derision amongst the male-dominated police service.

Hope however jumped at the chance to portray the character of Pistorius, saying “My agent sent me the first two episodes and genuinely, they were the best scripts I’d read in a really long time.”