Best British crime dramas

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What is yours? And yes I know it's not an AIBU but posting for traffic is a crime I like committing.
Personally, I can't decide. Happy Valley was bloody brilliant and I loved Broadchurch, Shetland. I also love the more lighthearted Father Brown, Grantchester and Jonathan Creek. Scott and Bailey was binge watched with great joy.

Can you pick a favourite? Just one?

@LunaMay Dalziel and Pascoe?

Dalziel and Pascoe?

Yes! Thank you, that was annoying me

Wire in the blood

The Fall
Hinterland

I have a very soft spot for The Sweeney. Watched a lot of those early in lockdown.

Taggart is often on cable, I can't believe how old it is! Rebus was brilliant once Ken Stott took on the role.
Dalziel and Pascoe
The Bridge, and most of the Scandi noir programmes.

I think a lot of the 80s and 90s TV programmes wouldn't come out of a forensic examination regarding attitudes these days but they're still very enjoyable to watch.

PD James, Adam Dalgleish programmes, I loved Roy Marsden's portrayal.

Line of Duty, series 2&3 (Lindsay Denton forever)

Unforgotten was also wonderful, until the brutal end of the last series. Great premise and the central pairing were perfection.

I enjoyed Marcella, despite it stretching the boundaries of credibility

I always thought Lewis was silly nut watchable. The body count was ridic.

But like you can't watch any of it since Fox decided to come out as Mr Ukip.

at Morse assuming every attractive middle aged, middle class woman would be putty in his hands.

Loved Dalziel and Pascoe- the books are excellent. Much more detailed and involved than the series.

I rewatched Cracker a while back and, tbh, wished I hadn't. They actually seemed fairly run of the mill psycho-nutter-profiling-drunk-loser-genius-crimesolver etc. So many followed it I think. And the Cracker character really was an abusive twat to his wife and son. Brilliant acting and writing obviously.

I'm rewatching Spooks. Does that count?

No Offence was fantastic

Cracker

Wallander

The Bridge

I'm chuckling now remembering a phase (probably late 90s) when Kevin Whately was in everything but always had sex at some point. Me and my Mum would be going "nooooo, not Lewis's bottom again". Started to believe he was insisting on having it written into his contracts that he took his pants off. And it seemed so wrong with that dopey comfy face of his .

Informer with Paddy Considine

The Professionals !!

Cleaning up.
It's about two cleaners who work for an agency where they do the cleaning for a firm of investment bankers.

They bug the office and use the information to invest in shares. Things turn out to be more dangerous than they had thought.

Stuff like that is always better with female leads. It just is.

Scott and Bailey is my favourite too. Never bettered.

I also love No Offence, Lindsay Denton era Line of Duty and Prime Suspect before it went crap. I can’t be bothered with Vera. It’s just Midsomer Murders in the north east. You need a bit of grit.

There is a new series of Unforgotten with a new female lead coming.

Cracker was amazing

Love Spooks too!

Honourable mention for international series - Mare of East town was amazing!

She’ll have to be bloody amazing. Nicola Walker is a very hard act to follow.

Foyles War
Vera
Grace
The Bay
Midsomer Murders

Oh - and Lewis

Mare was magnificent