Posted on 10/06/2022 1:37:09 PM PDT by Chickensoup
And American cop shows bend over backward to virtue signal "diversity". Yuck. So transparent and facile.
Excellent additions.
Danger UXB is another series worth viewing.
Yup, we binge-watched the series.
“and for medieval whodoits Cadfile.”
Think you mean “Cadfael”
Good series, I may have to watch a few episodes been awhile since I watched one.
It was pretty accurate on it’s portrayal of Medieval life.
The Shrire-Reeve (sheriff) was the only one who had a sword and chain mail. His deputies had only wooden clubs and padded leather.
Piece of Cake, if you can find it is great. Battle of Britain with outstanding aerial scenes.
Watched them all more than once.
Inspector Morse
Endeavor
Midsomer Murders
Touch of Frost
Inspector Lewis
Vera
Marple
Poirot
Love’em all.
Most Brit mysteries are plot heavy without the soap opera between characters overwhelming the mystery. They also cast actors who look like real people, not like models off of a runway. I have Britbox and watch a lot of them. They are generally much better than US shows.
In recent years they have all started adding homo characters. But have seemed to keep the personal drama in the background for the most part.
I just feel like the American shows are always trying to rub my nose in something. There is less of that on the British shows.
Love pretty much most mystery series.
When I first started to read, it was Nancy Drew!
I think a lot of it has to do with their having fewer episodes per season - no need for filler.
Read all of Ellis Peter’s works in regard to Cadfael. Agreed very well done.
Endeavor is interesting. Morse is as boring as watching grass grow or paint dry. Couldn’t understand the popularity?
They do break up the midsomers episodes into two part shown on different day.
I subscribe to AcornTV streaming for Brit, AU, NZ series.
I watch quite a few — they don’t seem to have a much ‘agenda’ programming as US programs.
City Homicide (AU) is a good older series, not too dated.
Brokenwood Mysteries (NZ).
My Life Is Murder (NZ/AU) with Lucy Lawless (Xena, warrior princess).
Silent Witness (Brit).
Single-Handed (Irish).
Also, running on PBS, Van Der Valk.
I have all but one of Agatha Christie novels.
For foreign language series, you cannot beat “Salamander” and “Before We Die”. I just finished binge watching both of these and was totally engrossed!
I never watched the Morse series, but did watch Lewis, its spin-off, and Endeavor from the beginning. Both are excellent, as is Foyle’s War. Shetland is also an excellent series if its streaming. Murdoch Mysteries is a long-running Canadian series, as well as British series Midsomer Murders, although I’ve never watched either of them. The detective series Vera, as well as Unforgotten are two more excellent British series. One thing the British do very well is murder mysteries.
All three are outstandning !
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Enjoyed them all. Even the old British shows were great - Blakes 7, Callan, The Professionals. Loved Dr Who until it went woke, then I went bye bye. Also love the vicar shows. Was more interested in Lewis and Endeavour than in Morse, though I bought all of Morse, too. Currently watching Chinese and Korean the way I used to watch the British series. I had always bought the DVDs for the British shows, but now I just subscribe to viki.com and iq.com because they’re so cheap. Since I used to have to put subtitles on for the British shows, it’s not a big deal to always have subtitles on for Chinese and Korean.
And a HUGE ditto to Foyle’s War !
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