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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The Borgias and The Game of Thrones
It’s unfortunate that these two medieval costume dramas are airing during the same time-they are near clones of each other. They are both about intrigue, betrayal, infidelity, and the sordid underbelly of the world of Kings. I like them both, but they are very similar in their story lines-at least, so far. George R R Martin is a famous Sci Fi writer, though to be honest I am not familiar with much of anything he has written. But I like fantasy and science fiction, so I was a bit excited to see that Game of Thrones was going to be…