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How does the U.S. remake of "Prime Suspect" compare to the U.K. original? Pop culture journalist Drew Mackie offers a weekly recap of the new NBC series and how it stands up to the original.
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Last week, I wrote about how the BBC "Prime Suspect" airing on KCET doesn't exactly match up with NBC's revamped version. In short, the BBC version runs longer and goes deeper, allowing viewers to witness even the smallest developments in...
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The second episode of NBC's remake of "Prime Suspect" has aired, and as the sharp-eyed viewers who caught KCET's broadcast of the second episode of the BBC original should have predicted, the two shared little relation. Whereas Helen Mirren's Jane...
In this story, told over four episodes, Detective Superintendent Jane Tennison, sent to Manchester, investigates a murder in which a drug runner was shot dead. She soon encounters 'The Street', a corrupt reprobate who rules over the local crime scene.
Jane Tennison sent George Marlow down for six brutal murders. Now, two more women turn up dead with the same markings, doused in the same perfume. Is this a copycat killer or did Tennison get it wrong? The D.C.I. working under her supervision is convinced she lacks the proper objectivity and is jeopardizing the investigation. But even off the case and suspended from the force, Tennison continues her search. Abetted by Richard Haskins, Tennison races against time to find the third victim, held alive somewhere to fit a three-day pattern. How did the copycat get access to confidential information about Marlow's killings unless he was the killer all along?
Jane Tennison sent George Marlow down for six brutal murders. Now, two more women turn up dead with the same markings, doused in the same perfume. Is this a copycat killer or did Tennison get it wrong?
"Class" is the issue; it seems that the "haves" have the local D.C.I. in their collective back pocket. But the after the manager of the exclusive Huntington Club is found dead, Tennison's unit is called in to investigate.
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