Whitechapel
ITV1 | BBC America | ITV | Release Date: February 2, 2009
CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
74
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 11 Critic Reviews
Positive:
9
Mixed:
2
Negative:
0
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
91
Entertainment WeeklyMelissa MaerzOct 24, 2011
Season 1 Review: Prepare for gullet slicing, blood spurting, cop-versus-cop conflict, and more blood spurting. We can't get enough. Read full review
88
RedEyeCurt WagnerMar 27, 2012
Season 2 Review: I'm pleased to report that creators/writers Ben Court and Caroline Ip and exec producer Sally Woodward Gentle have tweaked that gimmick ever so slightly, making Whitechapel fresh yet familiar in Season 2. Read full review
88
RedEyeCurt WagnerOct 26, 2011
Season 1 Review: Whitechapel defies the odds, however, rising above its cliches with solid writing, taut direction, evocative cinematography and great performances by Penry-Jones, Davis and Pemberton. Read full review
80
TV Guide MagazineMatt RoushMar 28, 2012
Season 2 Review: Whitechapel is like a British Criminal Minds, albeit with a much more appealing sense of macabre wit in its appreciation for the history of Grand Guignol. Read full review
80
TV Guide MagazineMatt RoushOct 26, 2011
Season 1 Review: [An] evocative six-part crime thriller. Read full review
80
San Francisco ChronicleDavid WiegandOct 24, 2011
Season 1 Review: Whitechapel may not reinvent the police procedural, but it's great fun, and the third episode is a heart-stopping race against time. Read full review
70
PopMattersRoss LangagerOct 26, 2011
Season 1 Review: Even if it slips into generic tropes here and there, Whitechapel's own veneer of nicely crafted entertainment remains intact. Read full review
70
VarietyBrian LowryOct 25, 2011
Season 1 Review: Whitechapel can be enjoyed for what it is--an excuse to take another bloody stroll down memory lane, while tacking on yet another cinematic addition to the house that Jack built. Read full review
67
Entertainment WeeklyDarren FranichMar 26, 2012
Season 2 Review: They [Rupert Penry-Jones and Phil Davis] make an appealing upstairs-downstairs odd couple, even if the nifty concept--studying centuries-ago crimes to help solve contemporary cases--is starting to wear thin. Read full review
60
The New York TimesNeil GenzlingerOct 25, 2011
Season 1 Review: The revisiting of Ripper lore, though, is relatively painless, especially since the most interesting character in this series is Edward Buchan (Steve Pemberton), the Ripperologist who tips Chandler to the similarities between the then and the now. Read full review
50
PopMattersRoss LangagerMar 28, 2012
Season 2 Review: The show's historical bread-and-butter is accompanied by a thin dramatic gruel, for the most part. Read full review
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