Jack the Ripper: Written In Blood

[Herlock Sholmes]

New three parter on Sky

https://www.sky.com/watch/jack-the-ripper-written-in-blood

[Geddy2112]

I think I might have seen this, is it a repeat?

[Herlock Sholmes]

I think it’s a new one Geddy.

[Geddy2112]

Well I've watched all three episodes and it's erm 'nice.' Of course a lot of factual errors but it makes you wonder if the press (The Star) did not employ someone to do the murders to increase sales.
A nice presentation with a good mix of acting and 'experts.'

[Herlock Sholmes]

Well I've watched all three episodes and it's erm 'nice.' Of course a lot of factual errors but it makes you wonder if the press (The Star) did not employ someone to do the murders to increase sales.
A nice presentation with a good mix of acting and 'experts.'

I haven’t seen it yet Geddy. I recorded last nights episode when there was no need to of course. I’m planning to watch all three over the weekend without my hopes being high. Yes I know, Mr. Pessimist.

Just put my mind at rest that there was no scene with Cross stooping over the freshly killed corpse.

[Geddy2112]

Just put my mind at rest that there was no scene with Cross stooping over the freshly killed corpse.

Bless him, poor Charlie did not even muster a mention, three suspects were mentioned but no Charles Cross. He did not even warrant a mention in the Bucks Row sequence.

[jmenges]

Oh God…Too many errors to count, and I’m just halfway through Episode 1.

JM

[PaulB]

Oh God…Too many errors to count, and I’m just halfway through Episode 1.

JM

There should be a page for favourite errors. I like Sgt Thick in uniform.

[Herlock Sholmes]

Oh God…Too many errors to count, and I’m just halfway through Episode 1.

JM

That bad?

[Herlock Sholmes]

There should be a page for favourite errors. I like Sgt Thick in uniform.

Maybe a review in Rip Paul?

[jmenges]

Maybe a review in Rip Paul?

I’ll be reviewing it in the upcoming issue.

JM

[jmenges]

There should be a page for favourite errors. I like Sgt Thick in uniform.

X Division, even.

[Geddy2112]

There should be a page for favourite errors. I like Sgt Thick in uniform.

The graffiti being rubbed off the way directly above Catherine Eddowes' body in Mitre Square is a bit of a bollock dropping...

[Losmandris]

I don't think I will be bothering then!

[Herlock Sholmes]

Well, I watched the first instalment and around 20 minutes of the second last night. I tried to limit my expectations whilst keeping an open mind by reminding myself that despite this being, in part at least, a documentary, we have to remember that it’s entertainment too, so a bit of ‘licence, had to be allowed for. There can be no perfect representation of events so I tried to resist the temptation to nitpick too much. For all that I know the programmes makers might have felt that they were making every reasonable effort at historical accuracy. So fairness was required. That said…


…what a contemptible, inaccurate, clueless, pile of undiluted excrement this effort was.


I couldn’t help wondering if one of the creators was related in some way to Sergeant Thick as he popped up absolutely everywhere. He was at the scene of the Tabram murder (strangely played by a young, slim attractive actress despite them later showing an actual photograph of Martha) He then turned up in Bucks Row (I’m sure that Steve Blomer is planning an Inside Bucks Row re-write as we speak [how did you miss that one Steve?]) We also see Thick strolling in to update an entirely unconvincing Sir Charles Warren about the case.

Our reporter Frederick Best strolls into mortuaries to view the bodies up close and while clothes were being removed (no police officer in sight). The George Yard scene looked nothing remotely like the actual scene; being out in the open with people crowding around the body. The Chapman scene was also in the open with no fence or any effort at accuracy. Then we got O’Connor’s wife saying that she was thinking of writing about the victims themselves (a clear hint at The Five) The streets were far to clean looking too.

A bit of accuracy can’t be hard to achieve with the tech available these days and there are enough people around that could have acted as an advisor. The locations could have been recreated almost exactly. I genuinely can’t think of anything positive to say about it. Totally disappointing. I’ll watch the rest of course but I’m already resenting the time that I’ll be wasting.