BBC’s ‘Copper’ Has Critics In Love!

After last weeks premiere of the BBC America original Series Copper, the critics have fallen in love with the show and lead man Tom Weston-Jones. With 1.8 million viewers, the show holds the spot of the highest rated series premiere on BBC America. Since it’s debut, The Los Angeles Times believes the production to be “an impressive piece of work.”

Weston-Jones plays the clever and morally complex Detective Kevin Corcoran. In a recap of the first episode, Surviving Death, The Wall Street Journal gives insight on what type of character Corcoran is:

“[Corcoran] is a police officer who doesn’t play by the rules, but that’s OK because it’s 1864 and there doesn’t seem to be too many of them.”

The show was created by Barry Levinson and Tom Fantana (producers of the HBO series Oz) and centers around Weston-Jones’s character, an Irish immigrant cop who patrols the Five Points in 1860s New York City. Throughout the series he will be dealing with the aftermath of the American Civil War along with social inequality within the aristocratic and African-American societies.

An amazing time period drama filled with corruption, whore houses, and violence…how exciting. Episode two, Husbands and Fathers, will be airing Sunday, August 26 at 10 pm pacific time. Make sure to check it out if you haven’t already!