BBC’s Ripper Street

Last year BBC America had it’s own program called Copper.  It’s a good show about cops and killers in New York in 1864.  Ripper Street is a BBC show that looks and feels a bit like Copper.  It’s the story of  cops, whores, and steam-punk CSI. The BBC is a bit more graphic in it’s display of mutilated bodies than CSI and the high tech used to solve crimes is a microscope instead of a laser.  Like most cop shows we have a Crime, a Detective, and a Solution.  The window dressing is Victorian London, Whitechapel to be specific.  The…

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