EPISODE
SEASON
Ripper Street - Season 1
Jack the Ripper was a serial killer who butchered a number of women in and around the Whitechapel District of London in 1888. The series depicts the haunt of Detective Inspector Edmund Reid and his team of officers, who aim to maintain law and order in London.
10 January 1984, Drogheda, Ireland
20 June 1944, London, England, UK
1963, Terenure, Dublin, Ireland
26 May 1981, Salford, Lancashire, England, UK
January 19, 2013
The result is as excellent as it is dark.
March 17, 2014
The effect is a fictional history that even professional historians can enjoy without making too many dismissive shakes of the head.
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
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
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 opens with chilling promise and on a decidedly modern note.
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.
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
Ripper Street is pretty ripping good.
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.