The Prime Suspect series with Helen Mirren
I rarely watched it when it came out in my young teens but I have the full series lined up on my DVR.
But my mother watched them religiously and my dad would annoy her and heckle the feminist POV. I remember him bring a total dick when Jane Tennison fucked a hot, young, black cop played by Colin Salmon.
The first series features a sensitive young Ralph Fiennes as a victim’s boyfriend. His eyes are beautiful. And I actually remember Tom Wilkinson as Jane’s season 1 partner and Jane smushing chocolate cake on her blouse before meeting his young son.
Helen Mirren is amazing. But Tom Bell is leaving nothing behind as a truly despicable fellow cop and antagonist as institutionalised sexism made human.
| by Anonymous | reply 5 | August 9, 2025 2:16 AM
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I haven't watched them since they aired. Do they hold up? Well... I know the final season that was themed around the Bosnian War doesn't hold up because it was a misfire from the start.
| by Anonymous | reply 2 | August 8, 2025 1:38 PM
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The most memorable character in the series was David Thewlis's repellent "pee-do-phile" (as the Brits pronounce it). Series 3.
PS holds up, despite creating so many things other cop shows repeated to death in subsequent years.
| by Anonymous | reply 3 | August 8, 2025 2:27 PM
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IIRC in the final series Tom Bell makes an appearance, he was nearly dead of cancer at that point. I think his character apologized to her character.
| by Anonymous | reply 4 | August 8, 2025 3:01 PM
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It’s excruciating having to watch what Jane experienced in S1. It reminds me of high school.
| by Anonymous | reply 5 | August 9, 2025 2:16 AM
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