We did not map out the architecture of this series and then begin. The process was much more intuitive, mysterious, floundering. There was never an outline. Mystery is our church.

Our sentence began on Saturday April 8th 2017 – interview with screenwriter Tony Grisoni followed by a test of endurance – the full 5 hour Red Riding TV trilogy. No breaks.

Masterfully adapted by Grisoni from the superb David Peace books, we hit the ground running – or fleeing, like petty thieves – with this filmic marathon. The art of crime mould was cast.

Since, we have been examining and exploring the strangeness of constant terrors in modern life, zeroing in on art, film, TV, theatre, podcasts and the real world.

The way it – terror – hovers and shimmers in our subliminal minds. That quote from Matisse – what did he say? – that painters must begin by cutting out their own tongues. Art. Crime. Crime. Art. Self–crime. Self–art. The way colours are sad and mad from dispensing so much bad luck. Dark blue moods. Dark deeds.

We need to be cured of the innocence of ourselves.

This is contemporary history with a criminal twist, rendered graphically, but never inhumanely. Horror can ooze into even the most banal moments of everyday life. But maybe contemporary history isn’t as awful as it might appear because art mitigates evil or so we believe.