EPISODE
SEASON
Ripper Street - Season 1
This dramatic series begins with many powerful and criminal events that look quite different. The series opens with many surprises. Most notably, when a mutilated corpse of a young woman was found in White Chappelle, Detective Inspector Edmund Reid fears that Jack the Assassin has returned to be killed again. On the other hand, a man dies in the street, and the word soon spreads that the cholera may be responsible for it. However, Jackson thinks another way.
1967, County Donegal, Ireland
28 October 1980, Dublin, Ireland
7 September 1982, Widnes, Cheshire, England, UK
1963, Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK
1966, Fermoy, County Cork, Ireland
14 February 1952, Birmingham, England, UK
1954, Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK
1982, Wales, UK
17 April 1959, London, England, UK
January 19, 2013
Despite a notable dropoff from the first-rate premiere to the so-so second episode, for those drawn to the oft-told Ripper story, this is definitely a "Street" worth visiting.
January 19, 2013
Ripper Street opens with chilling promise and on a decidedly modern note.
August 20, 2013
As these and other images are not only what they seem, they help also to develop Ripper Street's more distressing themes.
January 19, 2013
The chemistry between the three men is palpable, the acting superlative and the seeds of each of their backstories intriguing enough to warrant a consistent week-to-week tune in to see how they unfold.
January 19, 2013
There's a dash of The Alienist, the bestselling novel by Caleb Carr, with the detectives arming themselves with brand-new forensic techniques and marveling upon the wonders the new era will bring.
January 19, 2013
Ripper Street boasts superb performances, cast and production values, and, beyond the copycat elements, thoughtfully written scripts loaded with surprises and a compellingly complicated moral base.
January 19, 2013
The result is as excellent as it is dark.
January 19, 2013
Set in the dirty, seedy, and anarchic streets of Victorian England, it's distinctive and unlike most of what's out there already.
January 19, 2013
Ripper Street is pretty ripping good.
March 17, 2014
The effect is a fictional history that even professional historians can enjoy without making too many dismissive shakes of the head.