I've enjoyed it too..bit of useless information for you..while Ripper street is filming on the cobbles down the other end of the set Call the midwife is filming, they use walkie talkies so's not to interfere with each others filming....

I've enjoyed it too..bit of useless information for you..while Ripper street is filming on the cobbles down the other end of the set Call the midwife is filming, they use walkie talkies so's not to interfere with each others filming....

I was gonna watch Ripper Street but thought it would be too gory.

I was gonna watch Ripper Street but thought it would be too gory.

Hi Rosie No, it's really not too bad .... more of a who dunnit 

 Thanks for the lowdown Baz. I love whodunnits, so will definitely watch it now. BBC are doing some good drama a.t.m.. Call The Midwife is excellent  

its like CSI victorian....

I've not watched it as the title mentions Ripper which I assumed was about Jack the Ripper. I don't like watching anything to do with him, or those times. Maybe there were people who had a pretty good life back then if they had money but there was also a lot of disease, poverty and hunger. Some have mentioned whodunnit's. I like mysteries, my favourite being Agatha Christie ones, I read all her book years ago, she always wove such a trail of intrigue as to who the murderer was that I rarely guessed correctly, which I loved because in other books or mystery tv shows I guessed before the end so no element of surprise.

I love Agatha Christie too.... in fact I am re-reading one of her books at the moment..... The Crooked House.... and taping a Miss Marple on ITV3

I love Agatha Christie, too.

ATM, I'm watching Miss Marple on ITV3+1.

 Is it the Blue Geranium Yogi? If so I've just started watching my recording of it

That's the one.

I love Agatha Christie but can't bare to watch the shows, they have never found an actress to do it that I like....

I've not watched it as the title mentions Ripper which I assumed was about Jack the Ripper. I don't like watching anything to do with him, or those times. Maybe there were people who had a pretty good life back then if they had money but there was also a lot of disease, poverty and hunger. Some have mentioned whodunnit's. I like mysteries, my favourite being Agatha Christie ones, I read all her book years ago, she always wove such a trail of intrigue as to who the murderer was that I rarely guessed correctly, which I loved because in other books or mystery tv shows I guessed before the end so no element of surprise.

It's hard when you've read a book and think you know the character, then the casting director gets it wrong.

Thing is yogi I would'nt know who to cast myself, its a bloomin hard one...

Agatha Christie was a master  [or is it mistress]

I love Agatha Christie but can't bare to watch the shows, they have never found an actress to do it that I like....

My favourite character was always Miss Marple, after reading all the books I had my own idea of how she would look, her personality etc. I never related to any of the actresses often used until Joan Hickson was chosen, she was my Miss Marple, exactly how I'd thought of her in the books. The silliest casting for me was in an old Christie film with Margaret Rutherford, absolutely nothing like how Christie depicted her.

Is it just the poor class things you don't like YR?..I like Downton but I do like things that portray the poorer lower classes, I love the Architecture and such..if I could go back in time I'd go back and see all that....I loved Lillies on BBC when that was on but they stopped that after the first series....

I've not watched it as the title mentions Ripper which I assumed was about Jack the Ripper. I don't like watching anything to do with him, or those times.

If you have a problem with the period as a whole, then "Ripper Street" probably isn't for you. However I thought the concept behind the show was interesting and quite clever: rather than being about Jack the Ripper, it's really about his legacy. The series starts after the Ripper has claimed his last victim, but of course the police and public don't know that. Everyone's paranoid that he's going to return, and every time a brutal death occurs it causes a panic. Much of the police force remains stuck in a mindset that's obsessed with Jack, and therefore find it difficult to cope with all the other crimes and social ills that didn't go away while he was on his killing spree. And that's where Detective Inspector Reid (Matthew Macfadyen) comes in...

TBH, I don't think it's flawless: I haven't been impressed by some of the sub-plots, and it still manages to slip into cliché every now and then, Still, the period detail's interesting (among other things, it shows how the notion of London as a cosmopolitan melting-pot's is nothing new). I'm certainly going to be seeing out the series...

For a long time Stonks I thought my aversion to certain eras was the long clothing for some reason. When certain shows were on that were sort of costume drama I felt compelled to switch over. After some time I thought about it and realised that didn't make sense and eventually came to the conclusion it was certain centuries that were the problem when everything seemed so depressing for the average person. I've not watched Downton...not because of the long clothes or era lol but because I watch something else at that time

I agree on both those points YR

I did'nt realise Mary Kelly had died, I thought the last victim was found down at the river....

I'm not sure which victim you're referring to.

Ripper Street is set in 1889 - the year after Mary Kelly's death.

I don't like her either....