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Prime Suspect 5

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As in every film she appears in, Helen Mirren takes my breath away in Prime Suspect 5. It's impossible to take your eyes off her when she's on screen, and I can watch her movies endlessly and always find new depth in her characterizations. This entry in the series is just as good as 1,2,3,6 and 7 (4 was still good, but broken up into shorter stories, so for me not as impactful). Mirren is divine, and as much as I love all her performances, her embodiment of the complex, lonely and deeply ethical Tennison will always be my favorite.

I remember watching Prime Suspect 5: Errors Of Judgement when it was shown on PBS. Nothing was on television at the time and I was scanning different channels. I started watching the miniseries in the midst of the first episode. After the first ten minutes I was hooked! I even watched it again when PBS decided to repeat it!!Helen Mirren is amazing as Detective Jane Tennison!In this outing Tennison is demoted and starts working in Manchester. As soon as Tennison gets back on duty she recieves an assignment: a murder. I don't want to go into too many details. There are a few twists and turns and suspense moments. You will even keep guessing at the end.We even still get to see more of Jane's personal life.The standout performance in this set goes to Steven Mackintosh hands down!! Everytime he's on screen your eyes will stay on him. He's so despicable, cocky, and clever but likable at the same time.

Superior police detective drama--it doesn't get better than this!! I watched every episode of this series as it came out and recently rented the whole series and watched it from beginning to end. It is enthralling and mesmerizing--I never get tired of it.

I particularly like that Prime Suspect 5 is set in Manchester--great accents! Too bad they don't do subtitles--it takes a little time to get used to.

I originally watched the series 5 episodes while in London on the BBC. I was enthralled by the depth of the characters and the real life portrayal of the events. Helen Mirren is in a class by herself. "The Street" is one of the best "bad guys" ever created, cocky, bold and brutal. This series may be too realistic for some, it can be a little disturbing at times. Best cop series I have ever seen.

Helen Mirren is a very good actress and plays the part of Detective Inspector Jane Tennison well. She is a very outspoken person and, despite her 22 years of successful police work, she is transferred to a slum area because of her outspokenness and insistence on doing things her own way. The officers with whom she now needs to work cause her problems. Her superior officer at first only gives her speeches to make. However, when a murder is committed, he assigns the case to her. He is a married man who wants to sleep with her. She also wants to sleep with him. His police philosophy is radically different than hers. While she wants to rid the area of crime, he just wants to "contain" it, stop it from spreading. Her new crew of about a half dozen officers mocks her behind her back. The principle criminal, called The Street, is highly respected by the slum dwellers and even by her crew. Viewers will see her show her determination to clean up crime in the area.

Jane is transferred to Manchester and the three young people working under her are thrilled to be working with the well known and sophisticated London DCI, Jane Tennison, while her boss, the married DCS Ballinger is definitely interested in an affair. All of this is quite different from her London experiences, but a little disconcerting, too. Jane is not sure who to trust and who to believe.

A drug dealer is killed. When a young boy confesses, Jane doesn't believe him, but a sociopathic drug lord named "The Street" who is also looking for the killer, isn't sure. The Street always seems to be a few steps ahead of her in her investigation and Jane believes that one of her crew, possibly DI Devanney, a female detective, is supplying him with information.

Nothing is as it seems and there are a lot of surprises and many suspenseful scenes in this BBC movie before Jane puts all of it together. This is a violent, but superior drama in a superior English series.

This 5th in the Prime Suspect series is, to me, the best of them all. The action is gripping and tightly-woven, with the ethical conflicts plaguing a police department a tense secondary theme. Interwoven are the private lives of Jane Tennison and her colleagues. The primary actors are superb, with the incomparable Helen Mirren in the lead.
Anyone enjoying the Prime Suspect series, and British mystery dramas in general, will find this a must.

Helen Mirren is the commsumate actress in all seven years of this well-paced and excellently directed series, and along with superbly cast supporting character actors, this season is no exception.

I have seen this episode twice and never tire of the
story or the acting..the characterizations are nothing
short of brilliant starting of course with dame helen
mirren..there have been few actresses of this calibre
in the british cinema for ages..the supporting cast are
equally believable and moreso in some cases..e.g. the
black boy Michael did a magnificent job as the criminal
he was portraying. Andlast but not least Daniel Mackintosh was superb as the pyschopathic killer, the
Street..he has quite an acting history for one reasonably
young..one noteaable contrast was his protrayal of the
very young and bewildered pilot in Memphis Belle.

I have all the Prime Suspect series and have enjoyed them all. To me this is the best of all. The characters are cutting edge and Jane is at her best in her professional life and her worst in her private life. The reality of slums and the drug world are realistic and touching.