After last week’s disappointing effort, Series 2 of Ripper Street is firmly back on track with a brilliant episode inspired by the very relevant topic of gay rights. With tears, twists and a script frothing with delectable period dialogue, ‘Threads of Silk and Gold’ reminded us that at the heart of this rollicking police procedural is a series invested in the bigger picture.
The second series of period crime drama Ripper Street continues on BBC One next week with ‘Threads of Silk and Gold’ and investigations into the brutal slaying of a Telegraph Boy lift the lid on a vice racket run from the offices of the GPO.
Coming after three very solid weeks, Episode 4 of Ripper Street’s second series marked a slight dip in quality. Though still undeniably enjoyable fare, this week’s story was let down by its over-exaggerated villains, hastily-resolved ending and watery subplot involving newbie Constable Flight.
The second series of period crime drama Ripper Street continues on BBC One next week with ‘Dynamite and a Woman’ and, after over 20 years in Newgate Gaol, the Irish dynamiter, Aiden Galvin, is sprung from his prison wagon’s journey through Whitechapel.
For a series named after one of history’s most notorious misogynists, Ripper Street rarely gives us the female perspective.
The second series of period crime drama Ripper Street continues on BBC One next week with ‘Become Man’ and a prominent member of the newly formed London County Council is skillfully abducted from his table at Whitechapel’s Blewett’s Theatre of Varieties.
Can we all take a moment, please? Everybody else is crying right?
Though a bit of a slow burn, by the time we reached its closing moments ‘Am I Not Monstrous?’ had seriously proved its worth, tying up the week’s story with one of the most shocking and heartbreaking endings of the series as whole.
The second series of period crime drama Ripper Street continues on BBC One next week and a nameless and seemingly vagrant young woman is found murdered in a stairwell at Whitechapel’s The London Hospital.
In the opening moments of ‘Pure As The Driven’, a policeman is hurled through the first floor window of an East London building and impaled on the iron railings below, and – BAM! – just like that we’re back in the grimy, gritty, glorious action of BBC One’s Victorian crime drama Ripper Street. Meaning, in other words, that it’s time to reach for the smelling salts.
BBC One’s period crime drama Ripper Street returns for a second series this autumn.