Steve Brown
1. The Brits know their crime dramas and this one is particularly chilling, creepy and cool, thanks to slow-building investigations that seem destined to fail. Unlike US crime shows, this one doesn't exactly wrap up as neatly as you'd expect.
2. It's rare for an actor with marquee good looks to play anything but the smartest, lone-wolfiest, most jaded person in the precinct. But here, Rupert Penry-Jones (of "MI:5" and "Jane Austen's Persuasion" fame) is a ladder-climbing newbie Detective Inspector who is wildly out of his depth, in charge of a department that kind of hates his well-tailored guts and suffers from a bad case of OCD. How that plays out alone makes the series worth watching.
3. The first half of the series involves a Jack the Ripper copycat. Always a good time. (The second half is about big time '60s London gangsters, the Kray Twins.)
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