McNamara's Picks: 'Ripper Street,' 'Downton Abbey,' 'The Americans'

"Ripper Street": The BBC’s Victorian-era crime procedural set in London’s East End during the years following the grisly Jack the Ripper murders returns to BBC America on Saturday. Detective Inspector Edmund Reid (Matthew Macfadyen) and Detective Sergeant Bennet Drake (Jerome Flynn) are still prowling the grim and haunting streets of Whitechapel,  with only their wits and the rudimentary forensic expertise of  former U.S. Army surgeon and Pinkerton agent Homer Jackson (Adam Rothenberg) to ...

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