The British television series (based on David Peace’s Red Riding Quartet novels) follows a newspaper reporter and a detective as they attempt to solve a serial-murder case loosely derived from that of the real-life Yorkshire Ripper, who killed 13 women from 1975 until his arrest in 1981. But there’s much more to this show than a few dead bodies. Rampant political corruption, dirty policemen and some seriously weird sexual fetishes combine to turn an otherwise straightforward whodunit into a gritty, twisted tale that highlights man at his worst. This series is not for the squeamish.
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