The Serpent

About The Serpent

The remarkable story of how murderer Charles Sobhraj was captured. As the chief suspect in unsolved murders of young Western travellers across India, Thailand and Nepal’s ‘Hippie Trail’ in 1975 and 1976, Sobhraj had repeatedly slipped from the grasp of authorities worldwide to become Interpol's most wanted man, with arrest warrants on three different continents.

The Serpent is a crime series that ran on BBC One. Its one season of 8 episodes was broadcast from January 2021 to February 2021.

Its themes are india, thailand, serial killer, and 1970s. Tahar Rahim appears as Charles Sobhraj, Jenna Coleman as Marie-Andrée Leclerc, Billy Howle as Herman Knippenberg, and Ellie Bamber as Angela Knippenberg.

Produced by Mammoth Screen. In the United States it streams on Netflix and Netflix Standard with Ads.

MINDHUNTER, The Sons of Sam: A Descent into Darkness, and I'll Be Gone in the Dark make useful companions to The Serpent. TMDB voters put it at 7.4 out of 10 across 406 votes and it carries a TV-MA rating.