The complementary sale of the Prime Video streaming service currently has very tempting offers from Britbox, reducing the cost of searching for some of the most beautiful shows in the United Kingdom. And that means that I will recommend that you watch shows of three distinct kinds: crime, crime and more crime. Because if there is one thing that we like to do and that we like to do, it’s a cop show.
It is fair to say that typical British cop emissions are not like typical American programs. This is partly because most of the British cops do not carry weapons, although we will highlight an important exception to that in a moment.
It is also because many of the United Kingdom is quite calm in terms of crime, so the writers cannot simply fill the quays with RPG armed men and send cops who have crossed the doors of the warehouse in an armored humvee (although we always have the strange and fairly crazy action cop, like the Luther of Idis Elba). Viewers would rightly find that ridiculous and tut in their tea cups.
What these shows have instead of big explosions is excellent writing, a fantastic game and a dense plot – and that makes them not only to watch, but to essential television shows.
Blue lights (2 seasons)
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Great Britain has more police dramas than people: during the last census, there were 69 million people living in Great Britain and 73 billion shows of cops to watch. But Blue lights is different, mainly because of its framework: it takes place among the “peelers” of the Northern Ireland Police Service in Belfast, a city where the disorders continue to throw a shadow.
Britbox currently displays the first two seasons of the drama; The third is currently broadcast on the BBC and it is the weakest of the three. The seasons one and two are the best so far.
The show does an excellent work to represent tensions that make the police in Belfast very different from the police in England and show the toll who can make younger officers in particular. And as a person whose family is from Belfast, I think that it does an excellent job to nail the often very funny way that people from Northern Ireland withdraw: there is a lot of warmth and humor here, as well as breathtaking stress. Think about it as a little more soap, Belfast faces The thread And you have the idea.
Shetland (9 seasons)
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Based on the best-selling thrillers of Ann Cleeves, the Drama of Prédé Shetland launches Douglas Henshall as Di Jimmy Pérez, a police officer in the northern part of the British islands: Shetland is an archipelago located more than 100 miles northeast of the continent Scottish, where he is locked up by strong winds.
Scottish viewers (Hello!) Was amused with inconsistencies in the show – like everyone on the island with a Glasgow accent, not a shetland, because Glasgow was where a lot of Spanish names while Henshall was filmed as Haggis as Haggis playing Kilt. With a significant drop in quality. But at his best Shetland is a captivating and carefully traced police drama with a casting of winning characters and an absolutely magnificent shoot.
Agatha Christie’s Poirot (12 seasons)
And now for a very different type of detective. David Suchet plays the Belgian investigator Hercule Poirot in twelve seasons of sweet but captivating criminal mysteries.
Located in the 1930s and glamor of the 1930s with locations around the world, Poirot is a feast for the eyes (and especially fun for fashion fans: it was decades of disguise) and was nominated for several bafas, the British equivalent of the Emmy Awards, as well as many other prices. It is the television equivalent of a very good meal in an old very pleasant and rather high -end restaurant, a show to savor like a little treat after a long day.
