is the Netflix phenomenon series inspired by a true story?

netflix Hit the mile once again! It is with his unreleased mini-series Inside Man that the platform once again honors the showrunner Steven Moffat, famous for being already at the origin of the Sherlock and Doctor Who series. Number one of the series netflix since its release on October 31, it’s not really a surprise as the script is well put together.

Inside Man tells two stories simultaneously and completely independent at the start, the first one which follows the character of Harry, a priest from a small town in England who finds himself embroiled in an infernal and murderous spiral without his consent, then the second concerning a professor of criminology, Jefferson Grief, who was sentenced to death for the murder of his wife. The latter, while awaiting his execution, passes the time by investigating various facts thanks to his exceptional observation skills. It is then that the synopsis reveals to us that the two worlds will come together to create a single story.

A scenario so well thought out and a story of the most gripping that many viewers wonder if the series is not inspired by a true story. Series showrunner Steven Moffat opens up to the site RadioTimes.

Pure and hard fiction

This is revealed by series creator Steven Moffat for the site. RadioTimes, the series would be 100% a creation of the showrunner. Purely fictional, however, he indicates that he was helped by certain facts already in place in the United States, a card game including information on unsolved cases distributed to real prisoners in order to help investigators solve cases. Namely that this process has already made it possible to resolve two to three cases in the United States since 2021.

He still wanted to make his investigator a completely new character, and that’s what he comes back to in this interview: “I was thinking about the kind of detectives we haven’t had. Virtually since Arthur Conon Doyle invented Sherlock Holmes, there hasn’t been another kind of detective — they’re all crooks. But Grieff’s particular area of ​​insight is that he knows anyone can do it. He doesn’t support his worldview with the same fairy tale that you and I believe in, that there is kindness and kindness and that some of us just wouldn’t want to commit murder. He believes that every human being is absolutely capable of the abominable.”.

Are we going to have the right to a season 2?

This is excellent news for fans of the series, a second season is expected! The showrunner of the series Steven Moffat had left this possibility by adding a post credits scene opening a new plot if the success was at the rendezvous. Done ! We just have to wait for an official announcement from the platform.