Disappointed, and a little angry because I like (usually) crime dramas. First, I find the original Jack the Ripper story fascinating. Thus, I was easily attracted to this offering.
The first episode was fine, setting the time and killings in a compelling way. Then, episode two. More of the same. Literally. The same. Rinse & repeat.
Body after body is routinely discovered, police are interviewed and say the same thing every time. They answer the same questions from the press they answered the last time.
My interest begins to seriously lag. The only thing left for the show is to reveal who did it, and try to discover why. But no. More bodies, more inane dialog and more wandering filler.
Then the worst offender. The 3rd episode. Even the director, I suspect, realizes he's run out of story and makes the show take a sharp left turn with interviews of women defending feminism and decrying all men are bad.
That by asking women at the time to not travel at night alone is making them a weaker, inferior gender and damn it! They just won't stand for that! Probably wouldn't have worn a mask either.
The whole train just falls right off the track into the ravine.
I'm half way through the last episode and momentarily my interest is revived as we finally learn who the killer was and how he was captured. And yet...the story continues, crawling ever soo slowly to its eventual conclusion.
I gave up. Went on line and did a little end game research.
The whole story could easily have been presented in less than an hour. Oh, wait! It was. About 48 minutes actually. Save yourself 3 hrs and watch this instead.
You're welcome.
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