“The Long Shadow” is an excellent British series in which one of the basic dates to take into account is the decade in which the events take place: the seventies of the last century, about a year in which London already A liberating social and cultural development witnessed turmoil when police in the county of Yorkshire attempted to arrest a serial killer of women. Complicated times in which economic crisis and unemployment drove some silent housewives to engage in prostitution to support their loved ones, the social sector in which the so-called “Yorkshire Rippers” initially chose their victims.
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Shown by SkyShowtime and Movistar Plus+, the sober series, far from special effects or the morbid gloating over the murdered women, adds to the remarkable setting and costumes of the aforementioned decade numerous examples of deep-rooted social behavior: machismo, which is the case The vast majority of police officers involved in the long investigation reached a level of intolerable contempt for women in general and colleagues in particular. And before you tear your clothes over someone else's straw, a fact about the bar itself: Until 1975, Spanish women could not open a bank account in their name without the consent of their husband, father or guardian. Add to this that there have now been 1,238 victims since the official count of sexist crimes began in 2003, and you will understand that Spain is no different, even if the years of the Franco regime are missed.
In total, 13 women were murdered in Leeds, Bradford and Manchester by Peter Sutcliffe and the police spent five years trying to find and arrest the murderer, investigations that were in reality led by police officers played by heavyweights of the British scene, in particular by Toby Jones and David Morrissey, the latter in the role of George Olfield, who was in charge of most years of police investigations and was widely criticized for his persistence in pursuing leads that led nowhere. Of particular note is the great self-critical ability displayed by the seven chapters of The Long Shadow, written by George Kay and directed by Lewis Arnold, without shaking the foundations of British society.
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