Whitechapel Terminus

I like the basic premise of Ripper Street, the characters are nicely drawn, the interaction between the characters is really good. It does a great job in creating the reaction to the story line and the characters; the villains are hated, we feel the sorrow of the victims, we know Di Reid is obsessive, we recognize that Detective Sergeant Drake is a hard as nails troubled soul with a soft center. Captain Jackson is devil may care hedonist who we know will come good, that all good. But the script dialogue? It is frankly heinous! The style of speaking from scene to scene and episode to episode seems to have at least a 200 year window, one minute the dialogue sound like its from the eighteenth century and the 1920s. On the whole the show is enjoyable but the dialogue makes me squirm.