by While she may have had a morbid fascination with the Titanic as a child, particularly with the bodies of the victims, and while she has more than a few fans of her ghost podcast turning up, this show isn’t as much about death and dying as the title implies. Sure, she has high cholesterol at 36, and she encountered death up close and personal whilst working in health care. But you should set your expectations here more toward a “killer” set of jokes, as Byczkowski, winner of the first season of the BBC’s The Traitors, is just as happy spending time sharing what annoys her (such as getting tattoos when you’re too young and dumb to know better) and asking audience members to share about their own bad tats, as she is delving deep into death. So sometimes the thematic ties aren’t so deep. She divulges that she doesn’t want to have kids because she couldn’t control whether they grow up to be serial killers, or just another dickhead like her dear old Nan. Her darkest joke is that when she ponders her own death, she hopes to be murdered, believing that’s her best bet to get on Netflix. In this form, she’s entertaining enough, and decidedly more so if simply taken at face value as 45 minutes in the company of the woman you’ve seen on the telly or heard on her podcast. And yet perhaps not as memorable to us as it would be to her wondering why she couldn’t think of the proper term for a “paramedic van.”
Hannah Byczkowski: Killer plays at Turret at Gilded Balloon Teviot during the 2026 Edinburgh Fringe.
