HBO Max's 'Landscapers' makes theatre out of true crime

It'll take about one minute to figure out whether you'll be into Landscapers: a director yells "Action, rain!" while the words "This is a [DEL: true :DEL] story," appear onscreen as the fake rain falls over London.

A collaboration between Sky and HBO, the four-part series is inevitably polarising, as an overtly theatrical...