Tomorrow is Academy Award night and Helen Mirren is the favorite to take home the Oscar for actress in a leading role, for The Queen of course. I have been a longtime fan of hers and looking back the Prime Suspect series comes to mind as unrefined Mirren, giving life to the stoic and dispassionate detective Jane Tennison. Out of the entire series, Prime Suspect 2 is by a wide margin the most eerie and depressing, and therefore the best.

From that second season, a gut wrenching ten minutes to get a feel for the unforgettable and somber age of Tennison: