Jack is back! (Whitechapel)

Member Name: dangaroo

Product:	Whitechapel
Date:	15/05/09 (13 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Good acting, decent storyline

Disadvantages: none

I desperately wanted to watch a murder mystery recently and had seen all the films in this genre that I wanted to see. I purposefully went looking for something which I hadn't heard of and came across Whitechapel on Amazon. A drama originally released on ITV last year, this is now available on DVD.

Split into 3 parts of around 45 minutes for television viewing, it's just the right length for an enjoyable drama. There's tension, humour, suspense, a bit of gore and some historical info thrown in to create a very enoyable dark murder mystery.

When a fast tracking DI Chandler gets the DI position, he is not exactly greeted by his new team who have come across many like his type in their time, however a spurt of serious murders soon start to take place and DI Chandler wants to be involved, initially his tidy and domesticated ways and public schoolboy upbringing don't sit well with his colleagues and he is out of his depth but through his willingness to solve the mystery with the help of hardened Whitechapel DS Miles and a ripperologist who does Jack the Ripper Tours they start to make progress.

Can the modern day copycat Jack the Ripper be discovered? I thought this was a very clever little drama and by detailing the crime in the way they did, the most obvious of suspects managed to pass my attention! I have to say that the anorach behaviour of the ripperologist is done to perfection by Steve Pemberton!

Summary: Extremely entertaining drama