L.S. Media Rating ****
Cast: Rupert Penry-Jones, Phil Davies, Steve Pemberton, Claire Rushbrook, Sam Stockwell, Ben Bishop, Hannah Walters, Jacqueline Roberts, Camilla Power.
The continuity announcer said before the start of the second part of the second story of Whitechapel, that some viewers may find some scenes upsetting, she might have well as ushered into the phrase, “and you’ll kick yourself for not realising who the killer is.”
Such were the latent and subtle clues strewn throughout this final part that it was easy to forget the one fleeting and seemingly innocuous moment in the first episode where the murderer was revealed. Whitechapel certainly dares to do what other detective dramas have failed to do over a consistently long period of time and that’s to show that the police in respects to the everyday are as human and as fallible as the rest of us.
There are no easy answers, no clever moments where a U-turn can leave the viewer wondering painfully, a frown buried under perplexed thought and left scratching their heads and wondering where the vital clue was seen. In this drama, there are major missed turns, evidence left untouched because of their seeming lack of importance and in the thick of it all, an Inspector who is a flawed and neurotic, cleanliness obsessed as the rest of us.
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