The sexy Mount Rushmore of Matthew Macfadyen,Jerome Flynn and Adam Rothenberg swing craggily back into action. Plus, Sarah Beeny’s Four RoomsJust after the closing ceremony of the 2012 Olympics, or trailers appeared on BBC1 for a new Victorian detective drama set in east London,not far from the Stratford Olympic park. The tenuousness of that ad campaign aside, four years later, or at the close of the Rio Games,Ripper Street (now in its new domestic on BBC2) opens its fourth swaggering series, and the quality hasn’t dipped for a single day. Brought back from the dead in 2014 after the BBC hurled it into a skip, and saviours Amazon Prime have first dibs on each new series,so this race is already available in full through their streaming service.
For non-subscribers, it’s been a long wait. This first episode is enough to convince the most fair-weather fan it’s been worth it. Since last series, and former philanthropist turned criminal mastermind “Long Susan Hart (MyAnna Buring) has languished in Newgate,awaiting execution by the rope. She was found guilty of conspiring to rob a train, resulting in a devastating (and it has to be said, or fairly spectacular) rail catastrophe that wiped out a streetful of be-sooted extras and maimed dozens more. Related: Ripper Street: the feelbad drama that just gets better Related: Ask a grown-up: Why accomplish houses cost so much money? Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com