Ripper Street

Ripper Street: BBC One Vigilante Clip from Episode 2

You can watch the Vigilante Preview from the second episode of Ripper Street on the BBC Website.  (only works if you live in the UK)

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Ripper Street: Telegraph Review of Episode 1

And here's what the Telegraph had to say.  Read the full review HERE.

I don’t much care for procedurals or the casual butchery that tends to come with them but Ripper Street worked – just about. It quickly established a triangular “bromance” between strait-laced Macfadyen, a rakish American surgeon (Adam Rothenberg) and Flynn, who played a salt-of-the-earth Lahndaner who got punched a lot. As is always the case with procedurals, it takes vivid performances to compensate for the dull grind of all the exposition. Macfadyen has such gravitas these days that he adds weight to any production. But the other two held their own, which makes you wonder what Flynn – bar a similarly brutish role in fantasy series Game of Thrones – has been doing this last decade or so while Robson Green has been Extreme Fishing.

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Ripper Street: Radio Times Episode 2 picture and plot preview

The Radio Times already has a picture and plot preview out for Ripper Street. Be sure to see it HERE.

The new Victorian-set crime drama continues next Sunday with a case centring around Ernest Manby (David Coon), a 60-year-old toy maker beaten to death for a mysterious brass box and the coins in his pocket.

The Whitechapel Vigilance Committee presents 14-year-old Thomas Gower (Giacomo Mancini) as a culprit, with the youth refusing to deny the charge. Reid (Matthew Macfadyen) – his conscience pricked by a radical lawyer called Eagles (Hugh O'Conor) and orphanage governess Deborah Goren (Lucy Cohu)– tests the validity of the investigation.

Elsewhere, Jackson’s (Adam Rothenberg) drinking and gambling lead to the loss of the pendant that ties him to his American past – a history that he and Long Susan (MyAnna Buring) fear will now come to be exposed. Reid and Drake (Jerome Flynn) find themselves besieged at Miss Goren’s orphanage by the rest of Gower’s vicious child gang and their brutal master, Carmichael (Joseph Gilgun).

Episode two of Ripper Street is at 9pm on Sunday 6 January on BBC1

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Ripper Street: Den of Geek Review of Episode 1

Here's what Den of Geek had to say.  Be sure to read the whole review HERE.

Ripper Street has been trailed as being dark and intense, and this first episode does not let the audience down. It’s realistic, adult, and often bleak, but also sexy, exciting, and leaves you begging for the next one. Apparently a second series has already been commissioned without the first episode having been aired.

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The running time comes in at around fifty minutes, ideal for the Beeb to air to our American friends overseas on BBC America, where the show premieres mid-January. Middle aged women of middle England-put down your Fifty Shades of Grey - I beg of you - and put on BBC One and tune in to Ripper Street. You won't be disappointed. Oh my. You might even drop your Quality Street.

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Ripper Street: Guardian Review of Episode 1

The Guardian has a review of Ripper Street. Be sure to read the whole, but here's what the reviewer had to say 

But, on the first point, this isn't really about Jack the Ripper – not so far, anyway. It's about the aftermath, it's about a time and a place and a feeling, it's about the police, and the press, and the people, and it's actually about that obsession. And on the other: well, maybe it is a cocktail – but it's a bloody good cocktail. Warlow's/Leveson's script is real, alive and human. It's beautifully performed, and beautiful to look at – stylish, and stylised. The bare-knuckle fight scenes are brutal and memorable. It's proper, character-based crime drama, gripping, and yes – I'm afraid – ripping as well.

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