Thanks to squeezed movie-making
budgets, television has been enjoying a recent renaissance and the
BBC’s Ripper Street sits atop the impressive pile of innovatively
produced, impeccably acted and perfectly written small-screen series.
London is in the grip of a post Jack
the Ripper crime epidemic and the city’s recovery is in the hands
of Inspector Reid and his right hand men- the wanton but skilled
surgeon, Jackson, and the quiet, loyal Sergeant Drake (played with
surprising depth by Jerome Flynn, yes, of Robson and Jerome).
This grisly eight-part murder mystery
series stands up against all the award-winning, big money TV imports
from the US and bewitchingly captures one of the most iconic periods
in our capital city’s history.
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