Take away the leading lady and you’ve still got one hell of a police procedural about a serial killer with a fixation for young professional women. But when you throw Helen Mirren into the mix as DCI Jane Tennison — one of the greatest fictional detectives of all time — you’ve hit the jackpot. Watching Tennison solve the case is fascinating, but it is what she goes through behind the scenes, battling sexism and cronyism at work while her personal life unravels at home, that raises her struggle to such heroic levels. Yet Mirren never plays her as a heroine; Tennyson is as haunted and damaged as any of her coworkers, but has to work twice as hard to hide it because she’s a woman, and it’s brilliant to watch Mirren make it come to life.
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