Year: 2024- (February)
Genre:
Crime / Drama
Director:
Rene van Rooyen, Tracey Larcombe, Brett Michael Innes
Stars:
Charlotte Hope, Donna Cormack-Thomson, Steven John Ward, Vaughn Lucas, Grant Ross, Sean Cameron Michael, Meghan Oberholzer, Bjorn Steinbach, Gavin Werner, Ivan Zimmermann, Aidan-Jon Cullinan, Chris van Rensburg, Razeen Dada, Donte Fisher ...
Storyline:
To catch a killer, you must first understand one.
Catch Me a Killer follows Micki Pistorius, a former journalist who transitions into the world of criminal psychology—becoming South Africa’s first-ever criminal profiler at a time when serial killers were both a taboo and terrifying reality.
Using intuition, empathy, and groundbreaking behavioral science, Micki enters the minds of some of the country’s most notorious murderers, often at the expense of her own emotional wellbeing. As she helps law enforcement track down predators, she begins to wrestle with the psychological toll of her work and the blurred lines between understanding evil and being consumed by it.
Based on Pistorius’s real-life memoir, this is a raw, powerful, and complex portrayal of a woman stepping into a man’s world—armed with nothing but her mind, her compassion, and the courage to look darkness in the eye.
Similar shows to Catch Me a Killer
If you’re drawn to true-crime dramas with strong psychological and emotional cores, this series fits alongside:
Mindhunter (2017–2019) – The origin of FBI profiling, chilling and cerebral.
The Fall (2013–2016) – A profiler and a killer in psychological lockstep.
Clarice (2021) – Trauma, gender, and criminal profiling post-Silence of the Lambs.
💡 Like these, Catch Me a Killer explores the emotional cost of empathy, the science of serial behavior, and the toll of carrying others’ horrors in your head.
📌 Final Thoughts
With a haunting true story, powerful lead performance by Charlotte Hope, and South African cultural and criminal context rarely explored on screen, Catch Me a Killer is a riveting psychological thriller that goes beyond crime-solving—into the soul of the profiler herself.
Some chase killers for justice.
She hunted them to understand.
Which of these shows have you seen? Let us know your thoughts in the comments!
