re: Recommendations for good British mystery/crime drama series

Inspector Morse, Inspector Lewis, Midsommer Murders, Grantchester, Father Brown, Death in Paradise, Wallander, Marcella, Endeavour

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Endeavour
Shetland, it's Scottish, so turn on subtitles
Broadchurch
The Night Manager
Line of Duty

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All good. Luther is really good as well. Haven’t heard it there is going to be a season 6 of Luther, but he has himself in a mess.

Happy Valley and the Fall were good. Fall was one of the first UK cop shows I watched and had to get used to slower pace.

DCI Banks.

Tunnel like Marcella the 1st season was good and then started going down, but first season for Tunnel might have been better than Danish-Swede version. I guess maybe Broadchurch went down after Season 1 but still good.

Scott & Bailey and No offence kind of grew on me after not thinking I would like them. Same thing with sequel to Life on Mars - Ashes to Ashes which might have been due to being set in the 80s and how Keeley Hawes fit in with original cast that carried over.

Grace and Inspector Lewis were good.

I should know more as it’s a running joke with my kid how many British cop shows I watch. I show my diversity by throwing in an Australian, Irish, Swedish, or Danish cop show every now & then.

With 22,000 people spread throughout the islands the show makes Shetland out to be the pro-capita murder capital of the world, but accents in Shetland tv show aren’t nearly as hard to understand as on the tv show Crime (based on a book by Trainspotting author). What I watched Crime on sometimes had subtitles that were bunched together with multiple people talking or timing was off. It was ok as a show, but I did get frustrated trying to figure what the heck was being said and by who at times. Didn’t care for Dougray Scott’s crazy/anger outbursts, but he was good besides those.

Line of Duty has some silly moments that are supposed to be dramatic like a reveal that a female character was male in wig looking back that reminded me of Dwight in his wigs in The Office, but the show was good in spite of a few corny moments a season. Not sure if Hastings character could get away with saying no one is blacker him today (catholic from North Ireland).