- Network: ITV1 , BBC America , ITV
- Series Premiere Date: Oct 26, 2011
- Season #: 1 , 2 , 3
Whitechapel
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Generally favorable reviews- based on 5 Ratings
- Summary: DI Chandler, now permanently with the Whitechapel station, works with DS Miles and Edward Buchan (Steve Pemberton to discover if the next generation of Kray twins are behind the murders in the East End.
- Genre(s): Drama
- Show Type: Between Seasons
- Season 2 premiere date: Mar 28, 2012
- Episode Length: 60
- Air Time: 09:00 PM
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88I'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.
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80Whitechapel 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.
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67They [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.
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50The show's historical bread-and-butter is accompanied by a thin dramatic gruel, for the most part.
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