Red Riding: 1980, Part 2

When a Manchester detective (Paddy Considine), who is cheating on his wife (Lesley Sharp) with a colleague (Maxine Peake), is assigned to head up a team (John Henshaw, Sean Harris, et al.) to investigate the alleged thirteenth victim of the Yorkshire killer in 1980 in this superbly acted, muddled, bleak, factually inspired film noir, which is directed by James Marsh and adapted from David Peace's bestselling crime novels and based on the Yorkshire ripper case, he uncovers a layer of corruption in the police force (David Morrissey, James Fox, Warren Clarke, et al.) and lie after lie in the case.
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