Prime Videos Streaming Service Add-On Sales has some very tempting Britbox deals right now, reducing the cost of watching some of the finest shows from the UK. And that means I would recommend that you watch shows from three different genres: crime, crime and more crime. Because if there’s one thing we British love to make and love to see, it’s a cop.
It’s fair to say that typical British police chiefs are not like typical American. This is partly due to the fact that most British police do not carry guns, although we will highlight an important exception to it for a moment.
This is also because a lot of Britain is pretty quiet crime, so the authors can’t just fill the docks with RPG-armed goons and send the police blasting through warehouse doors in an armored Humvee (though we still have the strange, pretty crazy action policeman, such as Idis Elba’s Luther). Viewers would rightly find the ridiculous and spoken in their teacups.
What these shows have instead of big explosions is good writing, great acting and close plot and it makes them not only watch, but must-make TV shows.
Blue light (2 seasons)
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Britain has more police dramas than it does: At the last census, 69 million people lived in the UK and 73 billion COP shows for them to watch. But Blue light is different, primarily because of its setting: it is set among ‘Peelers’ by the Northern Ireland police service in Belfast, a city where problems continue to throw a long shade.
Britbox is currently showing the first two seasons of the drama; The third is currently being sent on the BBC and that is the weaker of the three. Seasons one and two are the best so far.
The show does a good job of producing the tensions that make the police in Belfast very different from police work in England, and to show the toll that can especially take on younger officers. And as a person whose family comes from Belfast, I think it does a good job of spiking the often very fun way, people from Northern Ireland waving each other: There are plenty of warmth and humor here, as well as cardiac arrest. Think of it like a slightly more soap-y, Belfast is taking on The cord And you have the idea.
Shetland (9 seasons)
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Based on the best -selling thrillers of Ann Cleeves, the award -winning policeman Shetland Douglas Henshall begins, as Di Jimmy Pérez, a police officer in the most northern part of the British Isles: Shetland is an Archipelo located over 100 miles northeast of the Scottish Mainland, where it is frightened by strong winds and heavy codes.
Scots viewers (hello!) Had fun with the inconsistencies in the show – such as everyone on the island who had a Glasgow -ACCENT, not a Shetland because Glasgow was where a lot of the interior was filmed, and Dougie Henshall’s character had a Spanish last name, while Henshall is about as a Spanish as a haggis wearing a wedge and played hind pipes – and afield – Leador The Leador, trading seven coincided with a noticeable fall in quality. But in his best Shetland is a gripping, carefully planned police drama with a winning role crew of characters and some absolutely beautiful placement filming.
Agatha Christies Poirot (12 seasons)
And now for a very different kind of detective. David Suchet plays the Belgian investigator Hercule Poirot in twelve seasons of gentle but gripping crime mystery.
Poirot is located in the roaring twenties and glamorous 1930s with places all over the world, and is a party for the eyes (and especially fun for fashion fans: These were decades of lovely attire) and were nominated for several BAFTAs, the British equivalent to the Emmy Awards, as well as many other awards. It’s the TV-equivalent with a really good meal in a really nice and pretty high-class old restaurant, a show to enjoy like a little treat after a long day.
