When I started watching "Ripple Street", I always felt familiar, but after thinking about it, I found that there was a sense of sight in Robert Downey Jr.'s version of Sherlock Holmes. On the one hand, we should praise the BBC for its excellent production and the feeling of a movie. Of course, this belongs to the fine tradition of BBC costume dramas. On the other hand, judging from the character setting, the character of the detective is a bit like Qiu Hua in the movie, a bit strict and rigid, while the American forensic doctor is like Radish Fu, uh... cynical, but there are always key findings, And at the critical moment to save the day. This character seems to have an unusual background. According to the second episode, it is speculated that his original name may be Matthew Judge, and the specifics have yet to be revealed later in the plot. There is also the opening soundtrack, which should sound like a Scottish bagpipe and a mandolin, and the color and style of the title screen are very similar to the detective Sherlock Holmes.
There are gladiatorial scenes at the beginning of the first episode, but unfortunately there are both in Sherlock Holmes and Becoming Jane (how popular this entertainment was at that time), so various dance scenes began. An orphanage director that appeared in the second episode is Jane's sister-in-law in Becoming Jane. Of course, the most important thing is that our Detective Chief, the handsome Mr. Darcy in Pride and Prejudice is swollen. Although he has not been walking the line of the little brother, he is a little too fat. . . .
One of the highlights of British dramas is "basic love". This is on full display in Sherlock. But "Ripple Street" doesn't seem to be taking the traditional British detective line. Apart from the detective's "deep love" for the American forensic doctor, and the male-male brothel in the third episode (the two deceased were found to be gay after they died, they were shot while lying down), and there was nothing else. The two male protagonists have their own families, and the other detective who is expected to be a 3P by himself also obviously likes women, so rotten girls don't think about it. At the same time, if you are a child who goes for reasoning, you may feel that the suspense of the show is not enough, and even the introduction to the crime scene is missing. The process of solving the case does not focus on careful reasoning like Sherlock, but on the advancement of the story and the depiction of the situation and psychology of various characters in the context of the entire era. Personally, I think the focus of this play is not to show the intelligence and greatness of the detective, but to restore that era.
However, "Ripple Street" does not lose to any British drama in terms of heavy taste. The first episode was naked pornographic photos and SM, and the murderer was filming the earliest tertiary film when the detectives rushed in. . . . The scale of this drama is shocking in the first episode. The gang in the second episode is already small in scale. The details of the autopsy in the third episode are really serious. What kind of sternum and intestines came out, and there is a close-up of the ripped sternum. What kind of nasty fun is this. . . . There are also passages about using a light microscope to check for Vibrio cholerae, various flasks and reagents were used to check what poisoning was - using sodium hypochlorite to check for arsenic or antimony, and watching this episode found the feeling of taking a biology and chemistry class. . . .
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