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The Daily BeastDec 21, 2020
Season 1 Review:
Interviews with their families and friends, conducted in the ‘70s and recently, further foreground their tragic plights. At the same time, Wood and Vile’s wealth of archival material not only retraces the police’s steps—and reporters’ efforts to cover them—but creates a powerful sense of life in West Yorkshire circa the second half of the ‘70s, when economic hardship led to rising unemployment, infrastructural breakdowns, and an air of modernity fraying at the seams.
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IndieWireDec 21, 2020
Season 1 Review:
It becomes as challenging for the viewer to distinguish between the victims as it did for investigators, and that appears to be by design. But the series nimbly shows how economic despair caused by a rapidly over-industrialized England forced women like McCann, Emily Jackson, Irene Richardson, Patricia Atkinson, and many more into the streets and made them prey to a misogynistic killer. It’s also hard to look away from the trainwreck of miscommunication passing around the police department.
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Dec 21, 2020
Season 1 Review:
While the series "The Ripper" attempts to dismantle some of that celebrity, instead putting police incompetence in the spotlight, it still neglects to truly center Sutcliffe's victims. Perhaps it's time to retire both the moniker and the same tired retellings of stories where sex workers are portrayed as one-dimensional or culpable in some way for the killer's crimes.
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The TelegraphDec 16, 2020
Season 1 Review:
At just four hours, Ripper is a relatively brisk retelling of the case. But it doesn’t achieve anything that Williams’s The Yorkshire Ripper Files didn’t do better. Beyond pandering to a ghoulish fascination with Sutcliffe, there really is little reason for it to exist.
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