How many episodes of The Crow Girl are there? The full season 1 breakdown and what comes next
Six episodes, five hours, one very dark rabbit hole. Clear a weekend.
The Crow Girl season 1 runs six episodes of roughly 47 to 60 minutes each — about five hours of viewing in total. The whole season dropped as a box set on Paramount+ in the UK on January 16, 2025, and rolled out to US viewers in September 2025.
What it 's about
Based on the bestselling trilogy by Erik Axl Sund — the pen name of Swedish writing duo Jerker Eriksson and Håkan Axlander Sundquist, later merged into a single doorstop novel — the series relocates the story to Bristol. Bodies of young men are turning up beaten and dosed with the anesthetic lidocaine.
DCI Jeanette Kilburn (Eve Myles) leads the hunt alongside DI Lou Stanley (Dougray Scott), and when the case stalls, she enlists Dr. Sophia Craven (Katherine Kelly), the psychotherapist of the prime suspect. What they uncover reaches back decades: buried child disappearances, historic abuse, and police corruption.
Critics went for it.
The Guardian's Lucy Mangan gave the show four stars, calling it "a very well-made, pacy drama "— one of several four-star reviews from major UK outlets in January 2025.
The episode-by-episode arc
- Episode 1 — a young man's frozen body is found on the street; Kilburn's investigation leads her to Dr. Sophia Craven.
- Episode 2 — a second body brings fresh leads, while Sophia can't shake thoughts of a former patient: the mysterious Victoria.
- Episode 3 — Kilburn comes under fire from above; Madeleine is in danger as Victoria closes in.
- Episode 4 — a cold case pulls the investigation in a new direction, and Sophia receives distressing news.
- Episode 5 — Kilburn and Craven dig into Victoria's past while Madeleine plans her escape.
- Episode 6 — Kilburn's world starts to crumble, and Victoria goes looking for revenge.
Each episode ends on a genuine escalation, which makes the box-set format dangerous. Plan accordingly.
Is there a season 2?
Yes — and this is the part searchers usually want. Paramount+ ordered a second season in October 2025, so the story continues beyond those six episodes.
As of July 2026, no premiere date has been officially announced, but with season 1 adapting only part of a very thick source novel, there's no shortage of material left.
For the record: the unlikeliest name in the credits is Slash. The Guns N' Roses guitarist boarded the series as an executive producer in 2024 and contributed to its soundtrack — which reviewers described as understated and spooky.