This wildly popular cop corruption drama led to Netflix commissioning creator Jed Mercurio’s Bodyguard, as well as earning the BBC their highest viewership numbers of the 2010s. Line of Duty: Season 1-6 Watch on BritBox Ever since 1997, the spooky theremin theme music and parochial, darkly comedic tone of the show has survived through a frankly bonkers body count. Who on earth would still want to live in Midsomer?! Unless you’re Inspector Tom Barnaby (John Nettles) or one of his replacements, you’ve gotta weigh the benefits of a whimsical village life against the extremely high risk of getting violently offed. Midsomer Murders: Season 22 Watch on BritBox Oscar nominee Lesley Manville is the sharp book editor tasked with finding the sinister overlap between the two. Magpie Murders: Season 1 Watch on BritBoxĪ relatively young project on a streaming service full of long-running fave detective series, BritBox exclusive Magpie Murders stands out by layering its whodunnit twists and turns in both the real world and in literary fiction. Sarah Lancashire stars as the most pragmatic cop on the planet, gritting her teeth as she witnesses shockingly graphic crime scenes and processes the suicide of her teen daughter. There’s always been a fine line (of plastic yellow tape) between comedy and horror, and this robust BBC One crime-drama has managed to draw wise, wry laughs out of horrific situations for three seasons. Happy Valley: Seasons 1-2 Watch on BritBox Over three seasons the sickening bond between the superintendent and her suspect will keep you compelled, and happily, creator Allan Cubitt hasn’t ruled out any further instalments. We’ve seen Gillian Anderson as a hyper-capable investigator before: the real surprise of this dark serial killer series is Jamie Dornan, genuinely disturbing us as a murderer of young women before we saw his funny and sexy sides. The not-so-sunny coastal vistas are as beautiful as the town’s secrets are ugly. But as long as powerhouses David Tennant and Olivia Colman are on the case, you’re at least in for some tremendous acting. None of its consequent seasons lived up to the devastating first blow of Broadchurch, which began with the murder of an 11-year-old boy in the fictional titular Dorset town. Here are our 10 favourite British crime dramas that you can binge on BritBox, from the darkly comedic to the downright disturbing…
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