# Who Killed Him? (2024)

> Six people from the inner circle of a murdered Mexican TV host each offer a view of the unsolved 1999 killing, pointing toward suspects shaped by fame and betrayal.

Canonical page: https://ember.film/tv/167240

## Facts

- Seasons: 1
- Episodes: 6
- Episode runtime: 47 min
- Status: Ended
- Genres: crime, mystery, drama
- Created by: Humberto Hinojosa, Alexandro Aldrete, Rodrigo Ruiz Patterson
- Network: Prime Video
- Cast: Roberto Duarte, Luis Gerardo Méndez, Diego Boneta, Zuria Vega, Belinda, Jorge Zárate, Javier Ramírez Gómez, Mauricio Pimentel
- TMDB rating: 6.9/10
- IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt32244849/

## Ember's analysis

- Pacing: measured
- Intensity: moderate
- Complexity: layered
- Violence: moderate
- Tone: tense, sober, morally grubby, melancholic, suspenseful

## What critics say

Audiences find the miniseries a gripping, well-acted true-crime mystery that revisits a famous unsolved killing through shifting viewpoints, though its reception is mixed.

## Synopsis

Who Killed Him? (2024) is a Mexican limited series created by Humberto Hinojosa, Alexandro Aldrete and Rodrigo Ruiz Patterson for Prime Video. Dramatizing the unsolved 1999 murder of beloved television host Paco Stanley (Roberto Duarte), the six-episode miniseries moves through the perspectives of the people closest to him, including his colleague Mario Bezares (Luis Gerardo Méndez), the younger broadcaster Jorge Gil (Diego Boneta), his companion Brenda (Zuria Vega) and the singer Belinda as Paola Durante. Each episode, around forty-seven minutes long, reopens the case from a different vantage point, so that the investigation becomes a tangle of backstage rivalries, private betrayals and the excesses of a media world built on fame. The engine is the question of who had reason to silence him, and the answers keep shifting as each witness's account exposes new motives. The mood is tense, morally grubby and steeped in late-1990s Mexico, with a prestige crime-drama polish and a tone that is sober rather than sensational. Fans of The Jinx, Narcos and Big Little Lies will find resonance in its layered, character-driven unraveling of a real unsolved case.

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