- Network: Netflix
- Series Premiere Date: Dec 16, 2020
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Generally favorable reviews- based on 8 Ratings
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Positive: 6 out of 8
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Mixed: 2 out of 8
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The RipperYour Score0 out of 10User ScoreGenerally favorable reviews- based on 8 Ratings
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Dec 22, 2020binged it in one session, everyone who loves true crime its a must watch, very addicting stuff
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Jan 15, 2021While 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, 2021Didn’t know much about the Yorkshire ripper until I saw this documentary and what a shock it was. RIP victims
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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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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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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.