The Ripper

[murraymints]

off to watch part one on BBC1...

[hc4361]

Enjoyable but I'm not sure Maglites were around in the 1880s

[lynbrown]

I wont watch again. Why do they have to use so many images of mutilated dead women, or live ones being strangled or worse? I think its on a par with porn.

[hc4361]

I didn't find it overly explicit, lynn. Compared to what the Ripper actually did it was Jackanory.

[maggiebee]

Watched about half of it then turned over to an Audience with Ken Dodd. Great!

[hc4361]

I'm going to see Doddy in March :)

[lynbrown]

I do accept it was tame compared to the actual events, but I wouldnt pay a licence fee to see those bodies or expect to find them beamed into my house! But I take your point.

[Jeza]

There have been too many Ripper stories for me. NO one knows the truth, so I watched Wild at Heart.

[craft1948]

I liked the sergeant.................

[China Doll]

Jerome Flynn craft? I just been singing his praises to snags about how hardcore he's gotten since his days of Roberson and Jerome... I enjoyed tonights and will be watching again.... or buying the box set cause I kept forgetting days it was on and missing it... one of the other!

[hc4361]

lyn, what on earth have you been watching all these years?
Old westerns where the men beat their women, went to whorehouses and shot each other at point blank range?
Thrillers like Cracker, Prime Suspect, Rebus, Silent Witness, Messiah where blood and gore flows?
Or Midsummer Murders - more murder than cucumber sandwiches in those villages. One of the most shocking scenes I have ever seen on tv was in that series.

Surely the title of the drama should have given you a clue?

[craft1948]

Yes CD he makes a nice bit of rough doesn't he................

[craft1948]

lol CD I may set my new Freeview plus recorder (Xmas prezzy) to record the series...........

[hc4361]

Why was Jerome's character boxing?

[China Doll]

Oooh, get your and your freeview plus... I like the main character fella, he's quite tasty :c)

[ChillDoubt]

Am I the only one who watched the Neil Armstrong programme on BBC 2 then?
Well worth a catch-up on the iPlayer for those who missed it.

[Mosaic]

I'm still reviewing my own reaction to the Ripper episode last night. 'You were all warned'....the BBC surely wouldn't say 'that many will find disturbing' before a programme for fun.
Like many have said, the actual images shown,the acts shown and the scale of violence are tame compared with those times.
The series seems to fall into the genre emerging of which 'The Crimson Petal' was an example - sort of Guy Ritchie's Sherlock Holmes meets CSI in the underclass of London.
The same genre is doing much to illustrate the lie that Victorian Britain was a kind of Pickwick paradise.
I felt that the costuming and sets were very well thought out, although I don't suppose I'm alone in beginning to recognise the Granada outdoor sets being given an airing yet again.
But I think I liked it overall, and will watch again.

[Ratty2E]

I enjoyed it but then I had Matthew Macfadyen to drool over so it was always going to be good. I'm finding all this 'gore' talk rather amusing as when they did the warning as Mosiac says I turned to my husband and said 'who on earth needs a warning about watching a programme called Ripper Street'. I look forward to next weeks drooling session, I mean episode.

[tiggerblue10]

I enjoyed it and I've put it on series link so it'll be recorded if I miss it. I think Matthew Macfadyen is quite dishy too. He was gorgeous in Pride & Prejudice.

[ummmm]

I think as a series it will get better.

[ummmm]

hc...the boxing, I think, was something to do with gambling and counterfeit money.