SnoopyStyle Set in Whitechapel in East End of London starting in 1889, police Detective Inspector Edmund Reid (Matthew Macfadyen) commands the local H Division trying to bring order into the poverty stricken chaos. It's been months since the last Jack the Ripper murder and their failure to find the elusive killer. There are Detective Sergeant Bennet Drake (Jerome Flynn), Captain Homer Jackson (Adam Rothenberg), brothel madam Long Susan (MyAnna Buring), and Rose Erskine (Charlene McKenna), one of Long Susan's girls. Reid is haunted by the lost of his daughter.There is a great dark grim brooding atmosphere. It's happy to live in the brutal gutter ugliness. The leads are compelling enough. The show works great as a procedural but it gets muddled as a serial. It also doesn't help that it's often a year or two in between seasons and I can't recall earlier storylines. I highly suggest binging straight through. The style also lends itself to be a dark confusion. It's darker than Guy Ritchie but is certainly in a neighboring gene pool. The dark style is great but the show does grind down.

alessandrolorenzi This is an excellent series with some very good actors. The production value went up after the series left the BBC (as principal producers) and went to Amazon, however the writing and stories weren't quite as good as the first couple of seasons. It also got a little sensationalistic and the characters became caricatures of themselves. That said I still give it a "9" for overall quality and it's original inception.

craigrupert This show continues to improve each year. Each of the cast members are top notch, including those in supporting roles, but it is Jerome Flynn who truly shines. Set up to be a tragic figure on whose shoulders must reside the weight of each of the several worlds he has to juggle between Whitechapel and his social life. He is a classic Shakespearean angst-ridden hero. The only of the three male leads that can always be counted on, even if doing what needs to be done is to his own detriment. Jerome Flynn seems to have fun in Game of Thrones. In Ripper Street, he is Prometheus unbound.The other true notable among this ensemble cast is MyAnna Buring, who plays the character Susan. Once a daughter of privilege, her fortunes rise and fall like the sea. And Buring's face shows every triumph and tragedy as they pass. Being a true ensemble, it would be hard to nominate any of the cast as a lead actor, but Flynn and Buring deserve supporting nods.Streaming now on Amazon Prime, this is a show you do not want to let go by.

westsideschl Seems to be a consensus floating about on season 3 being the best of the lot. Quite intelligent storytelling with intelligent dialogue, good suspense although sometimes a bit predictable. Authentic dirt & dust & sets & props & costuming. Would have helped, and this is consistently true for period movies, if the actors appearances were more authentic, e.g. mottled teeth, splotchy skin, bugs in the hair. Usual twists 'n turns in suspense, crime dramas. Rare 8+ rating from IMDb. If you haven't figured it out or already know it's East London, late 1800s and shortly after Jack the Ripper. Follows the Sherlock style work of British and America transplant detectives. Hard to believe that BBC canceled the show after the second season only to be rescued by Amazon (who would have thought) and even though it had a finale feel to it supposedly it's up for another year or more.