If you’re not sure why it’s so awesome to see Helen Mirren unapologetically kicking ass in Red -- and to see her doing so without getting grief for it from the guys -- then perhaps you’ve never seen Prime Suspect, the British cop series she starred in through most of the past two decades. It wasn’t a regularly weekly series the way that American TV does things, but more like a string of seven miniseries bunched between 1991 and 1996, then with a big break till the final two in 2003 and 2006. There’s a newly released Region 1 box set with all nine big chunky mysteries (Series 4 consists of three merely movie-length stories instead of one fat story, as each of the other series do), catching up with Region 2, which has had such a set for a few years. It’s must-viewing for anyone who doesn’t quite get the Helen Mirren mystique.
- 10/13/2010
- by MaryAnn Johanson
- www.flickfilosopher.com
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