[rating 3.5]
Spoilers will feature throughout this review.
After last week’s delve into London’s Chinatown, extreme martial arts abilities and addictive narcotic consumption, this week gave an insight into early eugenics and the attitudes of Victorians towards disabilities and genetic disorders – something a bit different for the palate.
Ripper Street’s current villain, in the form of Joseph Mawle’s Detective Inspector Jedediah Shine, returns to play puppet master over Reid and his men. In the last episode Shine gave his supposed ‘friend’ Maurice Linklater an overdose and now he plans to place the blame on Reid and the inquest is set. But it’s not only Reid who has his hands full with Shine, for he has many associates – one of which is revealed to be Silas Duggan (Frank Harper) the man who plays landlord (and owner in his eyes) of Long Susan (MyAnna Buring). The only hope for...
Spoilers will feature throughout this review.
After last week’s delve into London’s Chinatown, extreme martial arts abilities and addictive narcotic consumption, this week gave an insight into early eugenics and the attitudes of Victorians towards disabilities and genetic disorders – something a bit different for the palate.
Ripper Street’s current villain, in the form of Joseph Mawle’s Detective Inspector Jedediah Shine, returns to play puppet master over Reid and his men. In the last episode Shine gave his supposed ‘friend’ Maurice Linklater an overdose and now he plans to place the blame on Reid and the inquest is set. But it’s not only Reid who has his hands full with Shine, for he has many associates – one of which is revealed to be Silas Duggan (Frank Harper) the man who plays landlord (and owner in his eyes) of Long Susan (MyAnna Buring). The only hope for...
- 11/5/2013
- by Stu Whittaker
- Obsessed with Film
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