Best know these days for her Oscar-winning portrayal of The Queen of England, Helen Mirren made her reputation as an actress with this gritty BBC drama about a female police investigator named Jane Tennison and the battles she goes through – personal and professional – to prove herself in the male-dominated world of law enforcement. The cases she works on are brutal, and it’s to the series credit that not all of them get solved in a satisfactory way by the end of each episode. What makes Prime Suspect works so well, though, is the way the stories follow Tennison through the emotional aftermath of each investigation. It gives Mirren plenty of room to create a strong, believable – and above all female – character the likes of which is rarely seen in any kind of television program, particularly a police drama.
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