Prime Suspect (1991) 8.5
A female police detective investigates a series of serial murders while dealing with sexist hostility from her male comrades. |
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Prime Suspect (1991) 8.5
A female police detective investigates a series of serial murders while dealing with sexist hostility from her male comrades. |
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Helen Mirren | ... |
DCI Jane Tennison
(2 episodes, 1991)
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Tom Bell | ... |
DS Bill Otley
(2 episodes, 1991)
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John Benfield | ... |
DCS Michael Kernan
(2 episodes, 1991)
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Jack Ellis | ... |
DI Tony Muddyman
(2 episodes, 1991)
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Craig Fairbrass | ... |
D.I. Frank Burkin
(2 episodes, 1991)
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Mossie Smith | ... |
WPC Maureen Havers
(2 episodes, 1991)
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Ian Fitzgibbon | ... |
DC Jones
(2 episodes, 1991)
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John Bowe | ... |
George Marlow
(2 episodes, 1991)
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Andrew Tiernan | ... |
DC Rosper
(2 episodes, 1991)
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Philip Wright | ... |
DC Lillie
(2 episodes, 1991)
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Zoë Wanamaker | ... |
Moyra Henson
(2 episodes, 1991)
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Richard Hawley | ... |
DC Richard Haskons
(2 episodes, 1991)
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Mark Spalding | ... |
DC Oakhill
(2 episodes, 1991)
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Tom Wilkinson | ... |
Peter Rawlins
(2 episodes, 1991)
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Jeremy Warder | ... |
Joey
(2 episodes, 1991)
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Andrew Abrahams | ... |
Tilly
(2 episodes, 1991)
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Gareth Tudor Price | ... |
Willy Chang
(2 episodes, 1991)
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Jessica Turner | ... |
Pam
(2 episodes, 1991)
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Angela Bruce | ... |
Helen Masters
(2 episodes, 1991)
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James Snell | ... |
Arnold Upcher
(2 episodes, 1991)
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Michael Fleming | ... |
Major Howard
(2 episodes, 1991)
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Daphne Neville | ... |
Mrs. Howard
(2 episodes, 1991)
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Ralph Fiennes | ... |
Michael
(2 episodes, 1991)
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Julie Sumnall | ... |
Karen
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(2 episodes, 1991)
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DCI Jane Tennison has been passed over time and again to lead a murder investigation, so when one of her fellow DCIs has a heart attack just before he's ready to charge their prime suspect, Jane sees her chance to lead a murder investigation. But the murder squad she takes over is hostile to her, the men upstairs are eager to pull the plug on her investigation, her personal relationships suffer from her obsession with work, and the prime suspect remains elusive. Jane has her work cut out for her as she and her team work their way through computer data trails, legwork, intuitive leaps, chases, arrests, and confessions to find the killer. Written by Kathy Li
A common problem with great British series is that as time passes, rather than become better they lose their steam or atypicality. By the time Prime Suspect 4 came about, but for the rare scene it had become virtually identical to a common copper flick.
The first series, concerning the serial killings attributed to George Marlow (With accomplices), is the most complex and riveting, more so than even Cracker's first series. I have seen the episodes through their completion on several rotations and am still finding subtle aspects of character and plot. Helen is integral and can portray a paradoxical human in every episode consistently. Almost as integral is Marlow who can just about convince you that he's innocent -- but not quite, not in the right way.
In the Prime Suspect world, everything is politics. La Plante examines the seperate realms of politics and how they interact; this is what makes up most of the running time and all of my interest. Physical details and clue tables are pushed to the side to examine one person's brain, how it reacts to the world, and how the world reacts to it. Politics, Jane, that's what it's all about.