The Wax Princess (2014)

The final story of this series has a curious title. The Wax Princess is a curious title but that’s been a running theme during this series. I like how this is a relatively straight forward story which has Jack the Ripper in it. The idea that Ripper is creating these waxworks to bring back his love is quite a good one though I am not sure whether I like the implication that the Ripper is a waxwork himself is probably going a bit too far. However despite this, I still thought that the plot was very good and thoroughly entertaining.

Jago and Litefoot are acquitted which came as a massive relief because it means that the series can go back to what it does best and it wont have this thing hanging over them. The end of the story sees the Scorchies appear. The Scorchies appeared in what I considered to be one of the best Companion Chronicles of 2013 (it was runner up to Mastermind at the 2013 Toms Tardis Awards) and for those who hadn’t heard that story would soon find out what they are about because we get a lovely song.

Trevor Baxter and Christopher Benjamin have given some superb performances throughout this series and they are complimented well by Lisa Bowerman as Ellie, Conrad Asquith as Sergeant Quick and I also like Adrian Rawlins performance as Inspector Abberline.

I think that The Wax Princess is one of the strongest finale’s to a series for quite some time. The story was exciting from start to finish and I never found myself bored at any point. There were several times during the course of this story that I felt it seemed very much like a story that we would have heard during the first couple of series. Not surprising really because Justin Richards is one of the best writers that Big Finish has and he has written for the series since the very first one. The eighth series comes out in October 2014 so we won’t have very long to way and on the evidence of this series and what is about to come it seems that the future is bright for our very own dynamic duo.