This is a new British crime trilogy, which was advertised pretty heavily on Channel 4.

A thrilling trilogy of films based on David Peace’s cult noir novels about Yorkshire during the 1970s and 80s. Welcome to a world of paranoia, corruption – and the terrifying legacy of the Ripper murders…

The first episode wasn’t posted last week (apologies) as I was ill so I have included its info. Read more for the full show synopsis and episode’s summaries, and make sure to leave a comment on what you thought of this show! I watched it last week and though it was quite good.

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Show Summary:
This crime trilogy follows Eddie Dunford (Andrew Garfield), a journalist for the Yorkshire press, who is assigned to the case of a missing girl, along with the Yorkshire police department, Eddie finds himself involved in what seems to be a spate of brutal murders in a series of similar investigations in 1974, 1980 and 1983, spanning the eras of the IRA bombings, the Yorkshire Ripper, Thatcher’s reign and the Falklands war.

Episode Summary: 1974
Eddie Dunford and Barry Gannon, crime reporters for the Yorkshire Post are sent to a press conference where they find a Mrs Kemplay pleading for someone to help find her missing daughter, Claire. Finding out that there have been two previous missing girls in the past few years, Eddie decides to help, unaware of the violence, corruption and blackmail that awaits him.

Episode Summary: 1980
After 6 years of brutal murders the West Yorkshire Police fear that they may have already interviewed The Ripper and let him back into the world to continue his reign of terror upon the citizens of Yorkshire, but things become more difficult for the Police when they discover they not only have The Ripper to catch, but a copycat killer is also at large. Assistant Chief Constable of the Manchester Police, Peter Hunter, is called in to oversee the West Yorkshire Police’s Ripper investigation, with the help of John Nolan and Helen Marshall, both detectives from the Manchester Police, they decide to go back and look at the crime reports from the Rippers victims to see what they could have missed.