To ask for your best crime dramas

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In bed with a bad back. Bored and in pain so watching TV for distractions.

I love watching crime dramas. I don't mind stand alone episode stories but prefer watching stories that run over a few episodes. I really don't like anything super natural. Just a story with a mystery.

I feel like I have watched most of them but there must be some I have missed?

Am I unreasonable to ask for suggestions?

I have even watched a lot of European ones.

I mean dramas such as

The killing, The tunnel, Unforgotten, Baptiste and the missing, Cardinal,Guilt, Paranoid, Safe house, Absentia, Happy valley ,Luther, The sinner.

There must be some I have missed?

@questionablemouse - check out Rotten Tomatoes - 97%. High ratings everywhere. Main character gets his chest out a fair bit too.

Seriously old-school but I love Montalbano (Italian police drama set in sicily, you can buy on Prime) and I also love the Mentalist.

Vera and Shetland are on my to-watch list, glad they're getting so many votes!

Another vote for Cracker and Prime Suspect.
Oldies but goodies.

Killing Eve.

I am thinking of watching Hinterland - could anyone tell me if it is any good ? - Have not RTFT

I would second Morse Lewis etc also Grantchester

BUT - I thought Zen was utterly fantastic - only 3 episodes funny well shot and good plots in equal measure

So if you can get Zen , watch Zen ( unless Hinterland is any good I doubt it - no one seems to like it )

Haven't read the whole thread but 'The keepers' on Netflix is pretty good

Also was going to suggest Shetland and Vera

Bones

BasiliskStare Hinterland falls into the category of scenic crime, like Vera and Shetland but Welsh.
Fabulous windswept Welsh scenery.
Lead character is even more dour than Perez in Shetland.
There is also a "Tosh" character. Can't remember names.

Broad church
The bodyguard
Killing eve
Keeping faith (good welsh drama)
White collar
Most of the other ones I would mention you’ve already watched XX

I’ll second (or should that be third or fourth?) Shetland.
I’m currently working my way through the 2 seasons of Cardinal (on iplayer). It’s Canadian, pretty gory at point but good.

Anyone know where I can watch Hinterland?

I loved The Tunnel! Got completely hooked. When I finished it I actually felt like I 'missed' the two central characters.

I haven't RTFT so sorry if these have been covered but I'd recommend Save Me, The Night Of (Riz Ahmed is incredible as is the guy who plays his lawyer), Safe House, The People Versus OJ Simpson, Kirri (Sarah Lancashire is awesome), Broadchurch, Marcella and if you're after something that's Crime/Murder themed but a bit more of an easy watch rather than gritty drama then You and Dead to Me on Netflix are both entertaining.

Also not sure if you'd characterise it as a crime drama but (it is a drama and crime does feature heavily so maybe) I've really enjoyed Better Call Saul.

Dominic West as Fred West in Appropriate Adult was so chilling, it was an amazing performance. As was Emily Watson as the appropriate adult. Really uncomfortable watching but worth it.

Have a look at channel 4 online - plenty of the Walter Presents world dramas are crime related. Dicte: Crime Reporter is quite light-hearted and cheesy with a Jarvis Cocker lookalike as the detective. Acquitted is Norwegian, about a guy who was acquitted of a murder years ago and goes back to his home town (lots of scenic views of the fjords). Lots of others I can't think of right now.

I watched an excellent one, I think on Sky (on Now TV) set in northern Sweden in midsummer. It was about the Sami and a mining town and there was a French woman in it too. I think it was called Midnight Sun.

I didn't really rate Hinterland - too miserable even for me

Many of the above, I love Vera
I used to like McCallum too, must re-watch it

I've tried to watch Vera more than once but could never get past Brenda Blethyn's terrible Geordie/Northumberland accent ,(whichever it's supposed to be) or her 'bumbling disorganised' persona although I guess it's good to show a woman in a key role who is neither young nor glamorous.

Unabomber on netflix

The Bridge. I miss Saga. Grieved for that series when it finished.

Line of Duty

Not crime drama but great shows
Deep state
Justified if you can find it
Six
Frontier

Sorry @SavageBeauty73 was off watching the Voice. Its on the Drama channel, love the early ones.

Montalbano, you'll fall in love with Sicily, been on BBC 4 recently.

Thanks to whoever suggested Sharp objects as I hadn't see that one. Watching it now.

Also I rewatched ' What remains ' as I had forgotten it.

Back onto Hinterland too