#whitechapel tv

[carrymelikeimcute]

I will not explain but,

D.I. Chandler and D.S Miles walked so Stizzy could run.

[unwillingadventurer]

DC Emerson Kent- series 1

[hedleylamarr]

Whitechapel (2010).

[culttvblog]

Whitechapel: Series 1

Spoiler alert: this blog post gives away the conclusion of the mystery but not the identity of the killer.

Whitechapel (2009 to 2013) was an ITV series of four series. This blog post will cover the first series. This format changed over the four series, but the first series consists of a whole single mystery, in which a police department investigates killings committed by someone who is copying the killings of Jack the Ripper.

I see that the show is described as a police procedural in several places on the internet. As is so often the case, I don't think that's a fair description of the show so I'm going to have a go at broadening the online description of the show.

It really isn't a police procedural at all, in my opinion, at least not understanding police procedural to mean a show in which the investigation of the crime is the actual plot. In this show the police investigate a series of crimes, however the ongoing investigation is very much a setting for a number of human interest stories.

For a start we have a thread about the relationships within the team, particularly a conflict between Detective Inspector Joseph Chandler and Detective Sergeant Ray Miles. Chandler is considered a 'plastic policeman' by the rest of the team because this is his first murder and he's been on a lot of ocurses. Normally this would be the sort of thing which makes me lose the will to live, because I don't find that sort of tension interesting and would normally want to slap Miles for his attitude. However in this show this tension doesn't dominate because there is so much else going on, and in fact their two different approaches are contrasted to good effect in the investigation.

It is also clear that this investigation really takes its toll on the police officers, and so this show is as much about human relationships and coping as it is about murder. At one point they discuss the murder over a board game.

Then we have the connection with Jack the Ripper: Joseph Chandler was a police inspector and first to arrive at the scene of Ripper victim Annie Chapman, for example, and various other characters have names of people in the real world Ripper case. If this sounds naff, all I can say is that it isn't when you watch the show.

One of the ways the murders and show are further connected to the real world Ripper murders is that they arrest a suspect who is a Ripperologist called Edward Buchan (played to great effect by Steve Pemberton of the League of Gentlemen), which was also the name of a suspect in the original Ripper murders. Brilliantly, they take on Buchan as a sort of consultant because of his knowledge of the Ripper murders. There is also a very effective sequence where Chandler hands out books and DVDs about the Ripper murders to his team of police officers who haven't read a book in years, and suddenly they are all comparing what they're reading in the books and how it could be of reference to the current murders.

There is another very affecting scene where Buchan is leading a Ripper tour and realises that he has to stop it because he can't cope with the public's lack of reverence for the victims and bloodthirsty wish to see the scenes of the current crimes.

An element which isn't perhaps teased out to its full extent, and could perhaps have been considered as an option for future plots, is that Chandler has been parachuted in on the way to a sinecure and the power and prestige which makes decisions. The power held by the great and good is seen here but not fully expanded on: perhaps I should say that this isn't a criticism.

This complex story and investigation is told over three episodes in the first series, and I have to say it never once flags or becomes boring. It is perfectly paced and I literally can't fault the plot or production. This is some excellent television.

There are just two possible criticisms I can think of, although both might just come down to personal preference.

The first is that a show based on a historical murderer is necessarily predictable. If it's a murderer who hasn't finally been identified it can either go with an inconclusive ending or make up a conclusion, both of which might be unsatisfactory to some viewers. This show identifies the murderer but he doesn't get to justice. On reflection I don't think I was ever going to be happy with how this show ended so I'm not going to say that this is a major criticism.

The other one is that as happened in the real Ripper murders, the police interview a number of different suspects. My criticism would be that it is abundantly clear that some of them are just ridiculous as suspects, to the extent that I just think it would be unlikely they'd get as far as being interviewed under caution. One of them gets seconds into his interview before he points out that he was in police custody at the time of the murder: we all know the police are incompetent but not to notice that is a balls up of monumental proportions.

So in all a show which is far more than its listing as police procedural would suggest, with far more human interest than is apparent at first glance.

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[goodjohnjr]

Bodies (2023 TV Series)

Bodies (2023) Stephen Graham, Amaka Okafor, Kyle Soller, Shira Haas, and Jacob Fortune-Lloyd in Bodies (2023) What Is It? The 2023 Netflix British science fiction mystery crime thriller TV show Bodies. Bodies | Official Teaser | Netflix Bodies | Official Trailer | Netflix This is how The IMDb describes this TV show: A murder in Whitechapel. Four different detectives are trying to solve the…

[lifewithaview]

Rupert Penry-Jones in Whitechapel (2009) S3E1

When a vast police archive is discovered at the station, Chandler persuades a reluctant Miles that Buchan be taken on as a police researcher. That night Ben Salter and three employees are murdered in Ben's tailor shop with no suggestion of forced entry. Fear spreads through the area as folk suppose the killer to be supernatural, though Buchan sees a connection to the Ratcliffe Highway killings 200 years earlier. Chandler's main suspect is Dan Wilkie, a rival of Ben Salter as a teenager, until Ben's embittered half-brother Marcus is pulled in and placed in custody - from which he mysteriously disappears.

[lyricswrittenbythesecretdreamer]

Isn’t this just the first season of Whitechapel

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[pendragonsclotpole]

hi i just started watching that 911 show in the background while working thinking it would be a basic cop show/procedural drama i could play for white noise to boost my productivity like i did with all six seasons of SWAT (shout out to shemar moore’s overly passionate pecs and BECAUSE SWAT IS FAMILY speeches and that one ryan and shane cameo for getting me through my job onboarding months ago) and avoid the attention issues i get with british legal and cop dramas (shout out to the current loml rupert penry jones on silk and whitechapel, his roles as clive reader and di chandler are iconic)

and like yes. 911 is exactly that. so cringey. so feel warm-y and trite in the worst ways possible, filled with random monologues, oddly paced and placed one-liners, random quote intros that desperately try to replicate the word bangers of criminal minds, unnecessary flashbacks interspersed in the worst episode arcs ever and completely destroying the suspense, and with the weirdest combination of over-acting and under-acting in the entire fucking world that i have ever seen, and some entire scenes i just cannot stand to watch but do anyway because of how unrealistic and ridiculous they are but oh my god when this show hits its high points, it hits them

i need angela bassett’s athena grant to come and railroad my life. i want her to point her finger in my face and threaten to cuff me to my bed like she did that boyfriend in that season one episode (and yes THAT HAPPENED THANK GOD THE BUCK CENTRIC SEXY SCENES DID NOT LAST AS LONG AS SOME OTHER SHOWS COUGH SWAT COUGH BUT WHY NO MORE ATHENA?) you my friends have not lived until you’ve seen her on the other end of a huge tv screen raising her eyebrow and acting like she’s about to beat you up with nothing more than her commanding tone.

and also like all the other fucking characters.

i watched this show hoping to have inane drama and dialogue watching over me while i send emails and plan. i did not watch this show to bite my nails over maddie buckley’s psycho ex husband storyline, nor to swoon over the romance between to her and chimney (howard han i would die for you, your bg episode was so sad but so beautiful and if you had died i wouldve been so sad, yours were the flashbacks that won me over), nor to fangirl over ROBERT FUCKING NASH AND HIS GUILT COMPLEX (I LOVE YOU BOBBY), or to have my heart grow three sizes with the fucking tsunami episode

like you guys, i was on the edge of my seat, eating my dinner and actually wondering if they were about to kill off christopher diaz and break my heart and buck’s heart and ruin everything and like they didnt but now evan buckley’s character growth is such an inspiration and i just dont want him to fuck it up by trying to go back to work early and ahhhhhhhhhhh this was supposed to be a casual watch but now im writing this so im gonna have to find something else or worse go back to watching silk or whitechapel in the bg and be enraptured by rupert

[wangmiao]

"your top 15 favourite tv shows can say a lot about your personality!"

I got tagged by the wonderful @godotismissingx for this. honestly i don't know what they say about my personality, but i just picked 15 shows from the top of my head that i think i can rewatch under my current mood. they are indeed mostly murder and crime shows (yes i'm shallow like that).

besides three-body ranking #1, the rest aren't in any particular order. bold font = cdramas; italic = kdramas; regular = western shows. *means there's at least one gay ship that consumed my soul when i first watched the show LOLLOL.

Three-Body* (2023)

Day and Night* (2017)

Winter Begonia* (2020)

Original Sin* (2018)

The Long Night* (2020)

Chimera* (2021)

The King of Pigs (2022)

Kingdom* (2019-?)

Whitechapel* (2009-2013)

Fargo* (2014-2024/?)

Better Call Saul (2015-2022)

Poirot (1989-2013)

Spartacus* (2010-2013)

Dexter (2006-2013)

Mr. Robot* (2015 Season 1 only)

tagging @bahoreal @xinxiaojie @yohankang @zhivchik @a-very-fond-farewell @randomingoftherandomness only if you haven't done this and want to do it; also tagging any followers who want to do this.

[unwillingadventurer]

Whitechapel- 4.2

[scotianostra]

Happy Birthday actor Derek Riddell, born January 11th 1967 in Glasgow.

Derek the son of actress Hope Ross and former professional footballer Ian Riddell is best known for being a stage thespian more than anything else. Nevertheless, he still achieved mainstream popularity with roles on Doctor Who, the comedy Ugly Betty, and the Lifetime series State of Mind.

A graduate of the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, he was able to perform a lot of classics onstage in Shakespearean classics such as a Midsummer Night’s Dream and Much ado About Nothing before finally moving to television.

Riddell managed to chalk up two appearances in Taggart. In 2003 he starred in the situation comedy Book Group that aired on Channel 4 between 2002 and 2003. Riddell’s other credits include the brilliant No Angels, Gentleman Jack, Shakespeare-Told, ,Blake’s 7 radio adaptation, Happy Valley and Inspector George Gently. His films include Meat the Campbells, A Christmas Miracle of Jonathan Toomey, A Previous Engagement, and Tumshie McFadgen’s Bid for Ultimate Bliss.

Derek played King James VI in the excellent BBC drama Gunpowder in 2017. He keeps busy, since then he has appeared in some great dramas including, A Confession, Hard Sun and season 5 of Shetland,

In 2020 Derek was on our screens in the BBC/HBO product, Industry about the banking collapse in 2008, Industry, and the Irvine Welsh drama set in Edinburgh, Crime, appearing in 7 of the 12 episodes so far.

Riddell was in two decent mini-series in 2023, Bodies, an excellent time travel type show, featuring four detectives, living in different eras -1890, 1941, 2023 and 2053 - find the body of the same murder victim in Whitechapel. They soon come to realize their investigations have them central to a conspiracy spanning over 150 years. I hope there is a second series, but it looks unlikely. Derek also showed up in Payback, not as good as Bodies, it was a crime story set in Edinburgh, Peter Mullen tried his best, but I wasn't overly impressed with it. Both series did however get 7.3 out of 10 on Imdb.

Last year Derek was in 6 of the 7 episodes of Boarders, which I haven't watched yet, a season 2 is in the making with a whole new cast. He also starred in a TV movie called The Christmas Quest.

A Glasgow actor known for his role in Fantastic Beasts has teamed up with fellow film and TV stars to front a major new modern slavery campaign. The campaign aims to raise awareness of modern slavery and educate the public on signs that indicate someone may be experiencing modern slavery and exploitation.

In a special film produced for the campaign, Riddell explains how modern slavery "can be hidden in plain sight and is happening in towns and cities across the UK."

He said: "It is important we know that modern slavery is out there, and there are people experiencing it right now."

[broidobe]

so i felt the need to do this lol...cause i wanted to do this. thank you for your time

Interests:

i make shirts lol

i write (no shit)

i love poetry

i don’t really watch tv but i went through a three month long phase where i watched a movie everyday lol

i collect records

i love music (really any genre)

music (in no particular order AND there’s so many more lol)

5sos

the agonist

arch enemy

him

candlemass

cannibal corpse

whitechapel

chelsea grin

lorna shore

clitgore

draconian

dying fetus

forgotten ruin

lifeless

lifelover

mayhem

metallica

misfits

mortician

my dying bride

nattefrost

slipknot

type o negative

vampirska

oasis

guns n roses

sublime

the cure

fall out boy

panic at the disco (OLD ONLY LOL)

my chemical romance

eagles

billy joel

ethel cain

tv shit

jennifer’s body (BEST MOVIE EVER FIGHT ME)

jackass (PLEASE ASK ME ANYTHING ABOUT THIS SHOW I HAVE BEEN WATCHING SINCE I WAS SIX)

that's all i got for you man cause…i dont fucking remember anything else.

[agonynatural]

dear god spn girlies. I am begging you.

hannibal girlies, you too.

watch itv's whitechapel. please.

it's got all the brainrot essentials. there's gay subtext. there's glass closets. there's childhood trauma. there's mysteries. there's a supernatural edge. there's stuff that's implied but never said. there's unwavering homosocial devotion. there's religious symbolism. there's really weird parallels. there's emotional repression. there's mental illness. there's the world's grumpiest father figure. there's the failures of heteronormativity. there's the really weird way tv handled queerness between 2005 and 2015. there's wild imagery and cinematographic choices. there's cringy late 2000s editing. there's really egregious queercoding. most of all there's daddy issues.

please watch whitechapel I'm dying here.

[lifewithaview]

Rupert Penry-Jones in "Whitechapel"(2009) S2E3

Chandler and Miles survive the ambush but another team member is less fortunate. Commander Anderson publicly berates Chandler, telling him he is off the case, but this is a ruse as Anderson rightly suspects that Cazenove is allowing the Krays to control other criminals as an expedient and wants to put him off the scent. Anderson gathers the team at Buchan's house and outlines his plan. If the Krays are exposed as impostors their grip will be broken. Buchan steals Ronnie's DNA from a museum exhibit and Chandler, after taking on Jimmy in the boxing ring, gets a sample of his blood for comparison. Many consequences follow swiftly upon the DNA result, not the least surprising of which is the deal Anderson and Cheshire make to ensure that the twins are never heard of again.

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ANNOUNCEMENT/REQUEST FOR HELP ON MBAV FIC

so I've gotten back into writing (a little bit) and have been hyperfixating on My Babysitter's a Vampire for the past couple months, and am writing out the movie and tv series with a Black fem OC who ends up with Ethan (there's a second OC who ends up with Rory b/c he deserves love too). anyway, i want to attempt to give the show a season 3, so that it can have a better ending than what we got

sorry to bring up that anger/trauma from the major cliffhanger BUT which idea do you guys think works best for the opener to season 3, explaining what happened to all the vampires in whitechapel??

* says I can't make an edit to the poll once it's been published, but I've just realized that I said season 4 and not season 3, hopefully y'all still understood what I was trying to say