User Reviews

Bawdy but brilliant. If you do not laugh out loud at this show you are a very serious individual indeed.

Great comic acting to complement the absurdity. Recommended for a really good laugh.

Fantastic, original comedy - in the same vein as phychoville. Real antidote to the banal pap you get nowadays.

Well done. Love Matt Berry and the cast. Very enjoyable.

Matt Berry is the drunk incompetent thuggish Detective Inspector Eli Rabbit. This comedy is billed as the Victorian era of The Sweeney with more comedy and incompetence. A suspect in the first episode is arrested because he was wearing a blue hat and the murder victim had blue gloves.

Set in the foggy east end of London of the1880s. Rabbit has to find a killer of a young woman assisted by his new and naive sidekick, DC Wilbur Strauss (Freddie Fox.) They have the unwanted assistance of Mabel (Susan Wokoma) who is the adopted daughter of Superintendent Wisbech (Alun Armstrong) who is always clearing Rabbit's backside. Mabel wants to be in the police but females are not allowed. Mabel smells a conspiracy which the others discount.

The first episode reminded me of Murder in Successville crossed with Ripper Street. I was just waiting for actors to turn up mimicking famous people. In fact The Elephant Man pops his big head around.

It is silly fun but even by the first episode, several jokes and themes were already being repeated constantly.

I'll always be first in the queue for a ticket to watch any show with Matt Berry in, so was disappointed with the first episode of this.

I found the script to be almost completely flat, with an un-honed attempt of comedic dialogue, it sounded like an early draft, to be honest, where you can almost imagine on the top of each page- the writer, scribbling in pen 'I'll put something better in at this point- must brain storm it...' next to the typed words, but, time must have run out, as they seemed to have forgotten to.

It might just be the usual - finding it's feet- issue in the first episode, when all concerned are self conscious and trying too hard. Let's hope so.

Unoriginal and completely unfunny. Another comedy that thinks swearing a lot makes it humorous. Boring, bland and banal. It can only get better