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“It’s gritty and it’s raw and it’s dirty and it’s sweaty and it’s sexy and it’s all of these things… It’s quite edgy.”
“I think the fascination that we have with Victorian times, it was such contradiction as a society. On one hand, it was strict and filled with rules. It was also quite well known for being quite deviant, it had this really sort of dark undercurrent
Hear from stars MATTHEW MACFADYEN (“Inspector Edmund Reid”), MyANNA BURING (“Long Susan”), and CHARLENE McKENNA (“Rose”) – and discover why this “visceral police drama” still “feels quite resonant now.”
History’s most notorious serial killer Jack the Ripper tore through London. Now, the detectives who were on the case have to pick up the pieces.
In the aftermath of the Jack the Ripper murders, can anyone keep order in the blood-stained London Streets?
Haunted by the failure to catch London’s most evil killer, Inspector Edmund Reid (Macfadyen) now heads up the notorious H Division, the toughest district in London’s East End. Charged with keeping order in the chaotic streets of Whitechapel, Inspector Reid is soon drawn deep into the seedy criminal underworld of Victorian London — where fear always lurks that each new murder could mark the return of The Ripper.
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