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Just finished watching The Long Shadow, about the Yorkshire Ripper case.

My God what a shambolic enquiry by senior West Yorkshire police. They were convinced he was a Geordie because of a tape sent in by some nutter claiming to be the killer.
They disregarded Peter Sutcliffe after questioning him 9 times over the years because he had a Yorkshire not Geordie accent.
They treated survivors of his attacks as unreliable witnesses and incredibly badly even though some of the were not prostitutes.
They ignored advice from experts at the FBI and language experts about the fake cassette tape.

It was like "How not to run a police enquiry" for 5 years.

Some of the later girls who died could possibly still be alive had senior detectives not been so misogynistic and useless.
The last girl's parents (their daughter was a student at University) took them to court for damages but the ultra-kind House of fucking Lords quashed the case.
 
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The Cops

No punches pulled. The multi-award-winning provocative police drama that broke new ground, starring John Henshaw and Katy Cavanagh.
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The Cops (TV Series 1998–2000) ⭐ 8.4 | Crime, Drama

50m | 15
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Takes me back twenty five years - listen to the sarge bemoaning that his casually sexist PC "isn't much of a 90's man", jeez, do I feel old now. And - looking at the state of the Andrew Tate worshipping nobheads who keep popping up - properly defeated.
 
Eric.

Enjoyed it mostly but the puppet element added nothing to the story. In fact it was a waste of time and effort. The cop element was much more interesting than the dad.
 
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Just finished S3 of Sopranos, watching them back to back. I know I'm about 20 years late.

I'm not sure why it's often touted as the best show ever. I like the characters but there's not much story to it really and it's quite slow. Is it me?

Despite all that I do like it.
 
Thaksins Love Child said:
Just finished S3 of Sopranos, watching them back to back. I know I'm about 20 years late.

I'm not sure why it's often touted as the best show ever. I like the characters but there's not much story to it really and it's quite slow. Is it me?

Despite all that I do like it.
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The Sopranos is good all the way through and has a few incredible stand-out episodes (plus a small number of duds). At its absolute best it's better than almost anything. (The Wire is the HBO crime series for me though.)
 
Just finished 'Chasing Shadows' crime thing involving missing persons....not sure how old or new it is.
Only 4 episodes, 2 cases.....pretty good, really liked the 'to the point, no faffing' lead character.
Now on 2nd episode off 'Six Four' ....jury's out at min.
 
Just finished watching the real life Squid Game reality show, “Squid Game: The Challenge “

Only watched it because my daughter wanted to. Thought it was going to be a right load of shit.

But have to say it was good fun. They tried to replicate some of the original games as best they could without actually killing anyone. But some of the games they invented specifically for the programme were borderline genius.
 
willipp said:
Watched the attack on wembley doc on Netflix and wow what a shit show of a day that was. Like a war zone, horrendous English fan behaviour, so badly organized and amazing people weren’t seriously hurt.
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Yeah, absolutely horrendous stuff.
Quite rightly, i think it should be a long time before England are trusted to host a major tournament again
 
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