Four Lives, originally[1] and internationally[2] titled The Barking Murders, is a British television miniseries, first aired from 3 to 5 January 2022 on BBC One.
It follows the true story of the families of four young gay men (Anthony Walgate, Gabriel Kovari, Daniel Whitworth and Jack Taylor) who in 2014 and 2015 were murdered by Stephen Port.
[2] Ed Cumming of The Independent rated the series with four stars out of five, writing "In less sensitive hands, a case like this could lend itself to prurience or melodrama, but Neil Mackay's [sic] script and David Blair's direction deftly avoid these traps".
[11] Hugo Rifkind of The Times wrote, "Superficially, the most interesting thing about Four Lives was the casting of the great Stephen Merchant as Port.
This didn't particularly matter because although Port inevitably sat at the heart of Four Lives, this was more a story about police incompetence".