Amazing gritty drama reccomenations please!!

[strugglingmamma9876]

Please could anyone recommend any good dramas. Ones I've watched and loved:

Behind her eyes
Happy valley
Castaway
The teacher
Serial killers ex wife
Until I kill you
Trust me
Maternal
Mal practice
Karen Pirie
After the flood
The Bag
The tower
Harlen corben dramas

I'm feeling sad and need something gritting to get in to 😊

The vanishings
Crow girl
The one that got away.
Gone
Virdee(aterv1st ep)
Snow girl
The bay
All of the unforgottens
Show trial
White lies

This Is England and all the follow up series

Fool Me Once

Bad girls
Band of gold

Slow Horses if you have Apple TV

Ozark on Netflix

I recently watched Virdee which is on BBC Iplayer and it’s really good.

Was wondering about Dope Girls and see it’s been recommended, so I’ll give that a go next.

Waiting for the new White Lotus to come out on rvd as don’t unfortunately have Sky.

I watch a lot of telly!

Wrong Side of the Tracks on Netflix. 4 seasons. I didn't think it would be my cup of tea but we loved it.

I loved You Don’t know Me - Netflix

Our Friends In the North

We have really been enjoying an Australian series called Jack Irish, which is on the Channel 4 app in the world drama section.

Good exciting story, great characters and very funny - real dry Aussie wit. Guy Pearce is the lead.

Irvine Welsh’s Crime. It is on ITVx, two series available. As gritty as you can find.
Love/Hate also on ITVx. Five series, set in Dublin. Very, very good.

Keeping faith
strike
capture
this is England

The Bridge
The Killing (go for the Scandi versions of both the above. Outstanding)

The West Wing - still stands the test of time and we could only be so lucky #BartlettforPresident

Sherwood

Yellowstone but I would start with the 1st prequel and then do the main series.

I watched Playing Nice recently on itvx and it was really gripping

Shetland ? I often find things much grittier than others though

Some of these are really not gritty!
Hinterland is fantastic; gritty and also beautiful.
Chernobyl is a tough watch, but essential IMO.

Don't think anyone's mentioned Hugo Blick's work:

The English
The Shadow Line
Black Earth Rising
The Honourable Woman

(if they're still available).
Gritty and very original and different.
John Goodman's performance in Black Earth Rising is one of the finest I've ever seen.