Whitechapel - Series 2

It was a daft storyline and at times, so much was being crammed in that situations are too speedily resolved and characters are not fully developed.
But after the first episode, I was hooked, just like with the first series!
I hope there are more. Ok, the plots are a bit off the wall but it's good old escapism, and I've really grown to like the team - like someone else said, I even found myself feeling sorry for poor Kent, when he was accused of being the Mole ( didn't he lose his crutches quickly though?!), and was sad about John.
Looks like there's some scope for another one, anyway.
 
I enjoyed last nights opener. It did lack the darker tone of the first series, but then again Jack the Ripper was from a - some would say darker age, gas lamps no electric etc..

Did the Krays really have that much power - or has the legend spiralled out of control slightly?

I always thought they just had a small piece of territory and a few pubs to their name.
 
Glad it wasn't just me :p

It probably didn't help that I already knew it was one actor playing both parts, so maybe was looking to see how well done it was.
 
Just read through all the posts on this thread now .. the bit that had me howling with laughter was when they visited the pub, and Phil Davis tell RPJ to have a proper look ... and all the regulars have ridiculous scars, it's like a comedy sketch, or indeed, League of Gentlemen.
 
I agree. The first one was quite good - possibly because at least it was believable. This one just didn't make sense.
The whole premise of people thinking the Krays had been reincarnated. The idea that it would somehow pull all the criminal gangs together. The idea that it would infiltrate the Police to the extent protrayed..and then at the end it turned out there were plenty of Police not involved.

It was a flight of fancy and just didn't work for me.
 
Ditto. Well acted. Entertaining and totally silly.

How could he have hung himself in a garden shed. I can hardly stand up in mine:confused:
He was a mere Commander and there are loaRAB of the same rank in the Met.:)
 
They were thugs who don't deserve the adulation they've had from some quarters over the years glorifying them and their activities.

BUT they were powerful, yes. Numerous trials/allegations against them came to nought because of jury bobbling; numerous Policemen on the payroll; politicians (including two members of the House of LorRAB) in their pocket - blackmailed after being filmed with younger men at Ronnie Kray's infamous gay orgies; a considerable and lucrative 'business empire' (protection racket) and just before their arrest they were negotiating international links (including mining interests in South Africa) with overseas criminal organisations.

On a personal-level they were bloodthirsty, bullying, psychopaths who personally maimed and killed those who got in their way or who they simply took a dislike to and derived a sick pleasure from those activities.

A good account, that doesn't lionise them or embroider the 'legend' is 'The Profession of Violence' by John Pearson. The books title says it all.
 
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