The excellent TV series Ripper Street is broadcast in the U.S. on BBC America, but even if you don’t get that channel you can enjoy this show thanks to Amazon Video.
Ripper Street: Season 1 (4.5/5 stars, $9.99 to own the season in SD / $14.99 in HD)
April 1889 – six months since the last Jack the Ripper killing, East London is emerging into a fragile peace, hopeful that this killer’s reign of terror might at last have run its course. Nowhere is this truer than in the corridors of H Division, the police precinct charged with keeping order in the chaos of Whitechapel. Its men hunted this maniac; and failed to find him.
Ripper Street: Season 2 (4.5/5 stars, $9.99 to own the season in SD / $14.99 in HD)
The compelling crime drama returns for a second season and the job of preventing Whitechapel from descending into hell has never been harder for Inspector Reid and his loyal deputies. The memory of Jack the Ripper may have faded but the Whitechapel streets he walked are more dangerous than ever.
Ripper Street: Season 3 (5/5 stars, $10.99 to own the season in SD / $14.99 in HD)
Picking up four years later in 1894, season 3 begins with a cataclysmic event. Fifty-five souls are lost to a terrible locomotive disaster. From the twisted debris emerge clues that uncover long hidden deceits.
Ripper Street: Season 4 (4.5/5 stars, $11.99 to own the season in SD / $17.99 in HD)
The crime drama which has explored the criminal underworld of London’s East End returns in the high summer of 1897, as Queen Victoria celebrates her Diamond Jubiliee. This season once again reunites our heroes – Reid could never stay away from Whitechapel for long – and he is soon reunited with Drake and Jackson, one more policing the meanest streets imaginable.
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