An abundance of evil permeates “Ripper Street.” The latest British crime drama on BBC America is a mixture of the grittier of Charles Dickens’ novels, bloody fisticuffs, beatings, occasionally explicit sex, profanity and Victorian-period CSI-style investigation. (NEWS TRIBUNE)
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Ripper Street" on BBC America, 9 p.m. January 19th, Detective Sergeant Bennet Drake (Jerome Flynn) and Detective Inspector Edmund Reid (Matthew Macfadyen) pursue crime on the streets of 1889 London with the help of Captain Homer Jackson (Adam Rothenberg), an American. (TIGER ASPECT/BBC/MCT)
An abundance of evil permeates “Ripper Street.”
The latest British crime drama on BBC America is a mixture of the grittier of Charles Dickens’ novels, bloody fisticuffs, beatings, occasionally explicit sex, profanity and Victorian-period CSI-style investigation.
Oh, and it has an American as well. He smokes a lot.
Straight-laced Detective Inspector Edmund Reid (Matthew Macfadyen), and his assistant Detective Sergeant Bennet Drake (Jerome Flynn from “Game of Thrones”) patrol the East End of London in 1889 — a year after serial killer Jack the Ripper vanished.
The police deal with the constant pervasive fear that the Ripper might return, as well as with prostitution, child gangs, theft and murder.
A guide leading a tour of the places where the Ripper slaughtered his victims stumbles across a dead woman whose body is mutilated a la Ripper. Terror once again grips London, aided and abetted by the questionable journalistic practices of the popular press of the period, when fear and curiosity, not facts, sold newspapers.
It comes down to: Was the woman’s killer really the Ripper or someone else?
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