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enframed wrote: Sat Jul 19, 2025 9:14 pm So I just got a year of BritBox. What's good?

I looked at a list of stuff they have and I only recognized Blackadder. Seasons 2 and 3 are classic sitcoms. 4 is ok if you're hungry for more, but avoid 1, it's a very different show, and not a good one. There's no continuity between seasons, so you don't need to worry about watching in order.

enframed wrote: Sat Jul 19, 2025 9:14 pm So I just got a year of BritBox. What's good?

Mulberry

enframed wrote: Sat Jul 19, 2025 9:14 pm So I just got a year of BritBox. What's good?

If you like police shows, murder mysteries and such, then Happy Valley, Line of Duty, Shetland (first seasons, it gets bland and then bad as it goes on) and The Fall. I haven't seen Hinterlands apart from the first episode, it was super bleak Welsh crime series and apparently they made a version in Cymraeg, which would be pretty cool to see.

Thank you all for the suggestions.

We finished Murderbot on Apple+ last night. Really, really enjoyed it. Got me kinda weepy in the last episode to be honest.

enframed wrote: Sat Jul 19, 2025 9:14 pm So I just got a year of BritBox. What's good?

You’ve probably already seen them, but if not . . .

Prime Suspect
Cracker
State of Play
Life on Mars

Wood Goblin wrote: Mon Jul 21, 2025 11:46 am

enframed wrote: Sat Jul 19, 2025 9:14 pm So I just got a year of BritBox. What's good?

You’ve probably already seen them, but if not . . .

Prime Suspect
Cracker
State of Play
Life on Mars

I have not, so thank you.

All of them are, to some degree or another, crime shows, but they’re all exceptionally well done.

Life on Mars, however, is all that and more. It’s probably a top-ten all-time show for me.

Life on Mars was also continued and concluded as Ashes to Ashes, which may not be very clear from the Britbox presentation. (They stopped there before they had to do a series called The Heart's Filthy Lesson, I guess.)

I'm doing this off a list I found online, but:

Worthwhile drama: The Change (thoughtful, excellent jokes, heavy themes with a light touch, loved it); Karen Pirie (superior Val McDermid adaptation); Mr Loverman (Bernardine Evaristo adaptation, devastating).

Comedies: The Curse (extremely stupid good fun); Motherland; The Cleaner (solid adaptation of a German show I'm dying to see); Chewing Gum.