‘Sweetpea’: The Making of a Murderer Has Never Been This Funny

All six episodes of Starz and Sky Atlantic’s extremely black comedy Sweetpea begin with one chilling line of dialogue: “People I’d love to kill.”

In the first episode, which premiered Oct. 10, the show’s protagonist, Rhiannon Lewis (Fallout's Ella Purnell, her eyes enormous), lists a few who have done her a particular unkindness: manspreaders, surly Donna in the mini market, Norman from work, “people who have sex with you and then...