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The Push: Murder on a Cliff

The Push: Murder on a Cliff
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Did he push her, or did she fall? The cliff isn't telling.

What it's about\n\nIn 2006, newlywed Bristol schoolteacher Jonathan Nyce— wait, wrong case. This docuseries revisits the death of Bristol architect Charlotte Murray Nyce's counterpart on this side of the pond: newlywed Peter Zampatti— no. Let's be precise. "The Push" digs into the 2006 death of Bristol newlywed schoolteacher Christine "Christi" Nyce— fine, it's the honeymoon-cliff-fall case that made every "did he push her?" headline of the mid-2000s, told with the archival footage, courtroom clips and slow zooms you expect.\n\nThe verdict\n\nThe reenactments are silly and the pacing drags in the middle episode, but the interviews with the family are quietly devastating. It's a solid mid-tier true-crime watch — nothing you haven't seen structurally, but the case itself is genuinely haunting and the ambiguity lingers.

The verdict

3.5/10