Ripper Street on BBC/BBC America - Page 2

I've also enjoyed the first 2 episodes, but I may stop and just buy the BD when it comes out next month. The censorship really bugs me. Mutilated bodies are okay, but a bare nipple is just going too far.

Exactly.
On FX "THe Following" has repeated graphic shots of blood drenched pretty female humans mutilated in horrific manners, yet one brief shot of an obvious fake ball of fur meant to be a bloody mutilated dog and viewers were up in arms.

Show us the tits!

Good series! I know I'm watching BBC America when the Viagra Commercials come on

So you never watched football on CBS, NBC or Fox?

I wish there was an easy, legitimate way to stream the show without having to buy it on iTunes. My cable provider doesn't have BBC America on VOD, if it exists at all.

I'm getting the vibe that this is somewhat like CSI Las Vegas, lots of bloody dead bodies, gory autopsies, forensic science of the period and a hooker rich setting. I like the main characters, the setting and the science of the day.

I am continuing to enjoy Ripper Street too. The writing of the earlier episodes was so wonderful, I paid particular attention to it on this week's show. I thought the scene in which the young pregnant girl, Lucy, tried to get her job back at Long Susan's was particularly well done. After Susan turned Lucy down, Lucy said, "Then I know not what will become of me." Long Susan, speaking of men then said, "There is not one primitive desire in their childlike minds that you do not fulfill." To which Lucy replied, "Which is my curse, miss, one from which all the world profit, save myself." That was both beautiful and sad, I thought. Emma Rigby, who played Susan, is a beautiful girl and a fine young actress.

Charlie Brooker, very good UK TV/cultural writer has nicknamed it CSI:Whitechapel.

Good one!

I liked the way this week's Ripper Street focused on Sergeant Drake. I was less impressed, though, with Drake's colonel from Drake's army days, played by Ian Glenn. I was disappointed by the way the character of the colonel was written. The man was depicted as deranged but I could never figure out why that was.

Other than the depiction of the colonel, I loved the episode. I was particularly impressed by the scene in Long Susan's place in which the young whore, Rose, gently declined Drake's proposal of marriage. It was heartbreaking but the next scene, in which Drake released the pair of lovebirds that he had bought for Rose but not shown her before she declined his suit moved me even more. At its best, as Ripper Street was in those two scenes, it is very good indeed.

Yeah, been doing the same as you. Overall an OK episode, but I think the gunfight was really quite silly. Jackson just knew that right then he'd be able to reflect the sun into the other guys eye? Gimme a break. Then Inspector Reid gives him a nod and everything is hunky-dory?

The thing I don't like about "Ripper" is that unlike most BBC series it is shot more US style. IOW, lots of closeups where I'm used to see more medium and master shots in UK produced series. Perhaps done this way to appeal to US audiences who have been raised on head shots that only a dentist would love.

Did my laptop take me to the "Deadwood" thread by mistake?

Anyhow, despite its flaws I really like the show. Well cast.

I, too, have thought of the parallels between Ripper Street and the late, lamented, Deadwood. There will never be another Deadwood, of course, but Ripper Street has been great. It is one of the best written shows on television. It's slightly stilted but often beautiful dialog has more than once reminded me of Deadwood.