![]() 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. It’s not yet available to pre-order on Blu-ray or DVD.Here are our 10 favourite British crime dramas that you can binge on BritBox, from the darkly comedic to the downright disturbing… …there’s a viewer sat in front of this, who’ll never get back that hour he spent watching it.Īdditionally, the preview I’m watching doesn’t subtitles, while strong Scots accents rather demand it.Ĭrime begins on Britbox on Thursday November 18th. This is followed by fairly standard procedure of going to the mother’s house to interview her, plus suspecing the local nonce who’s on the sex offender’s list, while Ray thinks it’s the same criminal – known as Mr Confectioner – who kidnapped girls but was wasn’t convicted of all of the deaths, and is still in jail anyway, so it can’t be him… or will there be some ridiculous McGuffin thrown in that’ll point things in that individual’s direction?ĭespite this coming from the pen of Irvine Welsh, the first episode – at least – is as formulaic a cop drama as you could imagine: a terrible crime has been committed, the lead is a tortured cop with a hidden past along with a new beau ( Angela Griffin) – to whom he has to try and explain himself, there’s a cop with one day until retirement, there’s another cop who’s the sole member of the team that acts like Gene Hunt’s cast-off from Life On Mars (and somehow NOT being called out about it by his colleagues, as he says things which would get him in front of a disciplinary meeting the next day), and more importantly… ![]() However, it wasn’t clear whether that’s something they’ll return to in the plot of forthcoming episodes.īack to the main plot, however, and the investigation involves checking the scene of the abduction to determine – early on in the situation – what the girl was looking at, just off to the side, before she was taken in a van.īut what’s clear is the unclear aspect in that cop Ray is angry about what’s happened due to his as-yet-undisclosed traumatic past. Meanwhile, a schoolgirl called Britney, has been kidnapped, before the police are called to a potential death, or suicide, where a young couple have been strangled (unless it was autoerotic asphyxiation), and there’s an A4 pad with “3720” written on it. Crime is the latest ITV drama – this one premiering on Britbox, however – with a rather bland and generic title.Ĭop Eddie ‘Ginger’ Rogers ( Gordon Kennedy) – yep, they created a nickname for a character who’ll barely be in it – is about to retire and move to Florida, so lead cop, DI Ray Lennox ( Dougray Scott), is assigned a new partner in the form of DS Amanda Drummond ( Joanna Vanderham)… and guess what? They don’t exactly get on!
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