But Ellis said the idea of a female serial killer is bizarre.
His material is anchored in his bizarre everyday life, and his serial failure to cope with the most mundane situations.
But we had bizarre murders like Charles Manson and serial killers were on the rise.
But Mavis has also been criticised: Jack Kibble-White, writing for MSN, called Mavis and Derek a "pathetic couple", suggesting that their gnome plot was one of the serial's most bizarre.
The story took its inspiration, partly, from the true-life horror of Ed Gein, the notorious 50s serial killer who made bizarre trophies from his victims' skin, their fine soft flesh.
People like me have to find out about the podcast Serial through word of mouth, in a bizarre return to cultural life before the telephone, sometime in the 18th century.
Later that year the serial included a storyline which was branded "bizarre" after it mirrored a real life scandal that had occurred weeks earlier.
Caffery's cases in London and, later, in Bristol's Major Crime Investigation Team, have included the murder and bizarre postmortem autopsies of women by a surgically trained serial killer, abducted children and sadistic African rituals.
"Killing Time," Caleb Carr's "novel of the future" -- some of it was originally published in serial installments by Time magazine -- offers a bizarre twist on this diabolical theme.
"Longford," which will be shown tomorrow on HBO and stars Jim Broadbent as the aristocrat and Samantha Morton as the serial killer, is a chilling, but also strangely affecting portrait of their bizarre 30-year friendship.
