| Netflix | Season Premiere Date: December 16, 2020 |
Summary:
The four-part documentary series looks into the killing of 13 women between 1975 and 1980 by Peter Sutcliffe, who was dubbed "The Yorkshire Ripper" by the press.
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Movie/Mini-Series, Documentary
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Dec 16, 2020
The Daily Beast
Dec 21, 2020
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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IndieWire
Dec 21, 2020
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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The Telegraph
Dec 16, 2020
Dec 21, 2020
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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Dec 22, 2020
binged it in one session, everyone who loves true crime its a must watch, very addicting stuff
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Jan 15, 2021
While it covers the crimes in detail, it's greatest strength is when it delves into the procedural errors that lead to Sutcliffe roaming free for so long, as well as the effect his crimes had on the community, particularly the women.
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Nov 20, 2021
Didn’t know much about the Yorkshire ripper until I saw this documentary and what a shock it was. RIP victims
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