'Ripper Street' review: Complex characters The British obsession with Jack the Ripper shows no signs of abating, especially in the British film and television industry. Inspector Edmund Reid (Matthew Macfadyen, "Pride and Prejudice"); his sergeant, Bennet Drake (Jerome Flynn, "Game of Thrones"); and Homer Jackson (Adam Rothenberg, "Alcatraz"), a randy Yank with a fondness for booze and the working girls of Long Susan Hart's (MyAnna Buring) brothel, go into action when the body of a young woman is found in a Whitechapel alley with her throat slit and crosses cut into her eyelids. At ... Read More