Martha and Clive are preparing for their “silk” interviews, so we can rest assured that this episode will toss plenty of roadblocks in their way. Not to mention the roadblocks we know Martha will create for herself. ’Cause she wouldn’t be Martha if she didn’t make everything much more difficult than it needs to be.…
Things have settled down now that Silk has stopped trying to throw every trick in the one-hour TV drama handbook at us. (Martha doesn’t make even one unanswered call to her mother in this episode!) The cases are slightly more interesting, too, although there’s a thing with dogs that I didn’t quite grasp in which…
“Another courtroom drama?” you sigh. Yes, but this one has Rupert Penry-Jones, English accents, fancy robes, and wigs. So you agree to give it a try. Now, would it be cruel of me to say that in episode 1 the wigs are the most entertaining part of Silk? Call me harsh; I know there are…
Welcome back to Whitechapel, where the criminals prefer to recreate famous old crimes rather than come up with new ones. Watching this series—now in its second three-episode season on BBC America—is like listening to a radio station that only plays cover versions of classic hits. Makes you realize it’s awfully hard to improve upon the…
Tomorrow night, the first season of Whitechapel draws to a close. If you missed last week’s episode, here’s a brief recap so you don’t get lost in London’s dark streets . . . After DI Chandler manages to convince his team of investigators that a Jack the Ripper copycat is on the prowl, they spend…
Knowing that the BBC series Whitechapel (Wednesdays, BBC America, 10 p.m.) is about a copycat Jack the Ripper, I might not have watched it since I’m a complete scaredy cat when it comes to Ripperology. Everything about him and what he did creeps me out, even if the incidents happened over a hundred years ago.…
