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Professor T. Series Two. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Ben Miller, Emma Naomi, Barney White, Andy Gathergood, Juliet Aubrey, Frances de la Tour, Sarah Woodward, Douglas Reith, Ben Onwukwe, Rupert Turnbull, Tayla Kovacevic-Ebong, Keith Dunphy, Juliet Stevenson, Lucy Anna Richardson, Barbara Verbergt, Tom De Beckker, Phil McKee, Sara Vertongen, Gaetan Winders, Alannah de Loor, Leo Long, Muna Otaru, Miles Jupp, Clare Perkins.

A television detective must have a flaw to convey a sense of security with the viewer, and in a period when flaws are accurately shown as a different kind of strength, the connection between viewer and the solving of a complex crime has perhaps never been keener.

Ripper Street: The Beating of Her Wings. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Matthew Macfadyen, Jerome Flynn, Adam Rothernberg, MyAnna Buring, Charlene McKenna, Lydia Wilson, David Dawson, David Wilmot, Josh O’ Connor, Louise Brealey, John Heffernan, Anna Burnett, Charlie Creed-Miles, Richard Goulding, Phil McKee, Marie Critchley, Alicia Gerrard.

 

How far can a man be pushed before his breaking point is reached, before the Gods destroy and make mad? For Victorian Detective Inspector Edmund Reid, the Gods have been waiting a long time for the stretch of rope to uncoil to its full potential and take the man who has led H Division and the people of Whitechapel through so many crisis that the madness has almost taken on its own shadowy form; one in which now finally tears and severs.