That's the thing, when you complain about having nothing to read people say "well write it yourself" and the thing is we do but that's really not the same as having something written by someone else to read... Yeah, I'm agreeing with you. *g*
I'm pondering your question. I watch Criminal Minds, a lot of times with my face hidden behind my hands but then sometimes I have to leave the room because it just gets too much. There have been a few moments in Ripper Street where that's happened but not on anything like the same scale.
I think a lot of it is POV? In Criminal Minds, the audience spends a lot of time in the killer's POV. In Ripper Street we're always with the cops or with their sidekick, the American medical man, Jackson.
There are graphic scenes inside a Victorian mortuary, aprons covered in blood, that sort of thing, but it takes place post Jack the Ripper (Reid was one of the lead detectives on the case and it's set in Whitechapel). There's violence against women but there's also violence against men and it has some strong female characters as well, one of them a madam another a Jewish teacher who runs an orphanage. To me most of its "horror" when it arises is of the desperate lives type rather than the gore type. It doesn't shy away from the issues of the day. One of the shows in the second season deals with the plight of gay men in Victorian England and in season one there's a Molly House. Some of the violence comes also with Drake's bareknuckle fights, filmed a bit more realistically than RDJ's Holmes one in the Sherlock Holmes film.
There's lots of authenticity which can be unpleasant, like cops beating up suspects but it also gorgeous in things like the rhythms of their speech.
It's been a while since I've seen season one which is why I'm pausing and thinking back.
This is the first couple of minutes of the first episode for texture. Warning: You will see a dead body.
The central relationships in the series are between Reid (Matthew Macfadyen), his sergeant, Drake (Jerome Flynn) and Jackson (Adam Rothrnberg), who is really a very early forensics man, an American with a shady past.
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Date: 2014-06-13 04:40 am (UTC)That's the thing, when you complain about having nothing to read people say "well write it yourself" and the thing is we do but that's really not the same as having something written by someone else to read... Yeah, I'm agreeing with you. *g*
I'm pondering your question. I watch Criminal Minds, a lot of times with my face hidden behind my hands but then sometimes I have to leave the room because it just gets too much. There have been a few moments in Ripper Street where that's happened but not on anything like the same scale.
I think a lot of it is POV? In Criminal Minds, the audience spends a lot of time in the killer's POV. In Ripper Street we're always with the cops or with their sidekick, the American medical man, Jackson.
There are graphic scenes inside a Victorian mortuary, aprons covered in blood, that sort of thing, but it takes place post Jack the Ripper (Reid was one of the lead detectives on the case and it's set in Whitechapel). There's violence against women but there's also violence against men and it has some strong female characters as well, one of them a madam another a Jewish teacher who runs an orphanage. To me most of its "horror" when it arises is of the desperate lives type rather than the gore type. It doesn't shy away from the issues of the day. One of the shows in the second season deals with the plight of gay men in Victorian England and in season one there's a Molly House. Some of the violence comes also with Drake's bareknuckle fights, filmed a bit more realistically than RDJ's Holmes one in the Sherlock Holmes film.
There's lots of authenticity which can be unpleasant, like cops beating up suspects but it also gorgeous in things like the rhythms of their speech.
It's been a while since I've seen season one which is why I'm pausing and thinking back.
This is the first couple of minutes of the first episode for texture. Warning: You will see a dead body.
The central relationships in the series are between Reid (Matthew Macfadyen), his sergeant, Drake (Jerome Flynn) and Jackson (Adam Rothrnberg), who is really a very early forensics man, an American with a shady past.
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