I hear "The Americas" is a good watch, and Ken Burns series on The Vietnam War.

we have for the past 4-5 years watched BritBox and Acorn as lots of the American shows got weird and way too much action. The British crime drama shows all seem to have great twists in them and you get to learn a new language… British English… you will need subtitles :-)

Vera
Shetland
Grantchester
Silent Witness
Inspector Gently
Foyle’s War
Lincoln Lawyer on Netflix
Broadchurch


Just to name a few

“Dark Winds” is based on the famous detective novels of Tony Hillerman and are set on the Navaho Reservation. The detectives are two Navaho cops, Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee. The show was shot on the reservation, and a lot of the actors are Navaho. The. Lead actors aren’t, but the are Indians. The first two seasons were excellent.

“Virgin River” has beautiful scenery and solid acting. It’s warm-hearted and romantic. I’m a guy, and I’ve watched it all by myself, but women especially love this series. You come to care for the characters. They all face difficulties and moral questions (by which I don’t mean sexual questions, but questions of what to do, how to respond). It’s a bit like a series of lessons in What Would Jesus Do, but without talking about it. Highly recommended.

I highly recommend “Extraordinary Attorney Woo” on Netflix. I’ve shone this to a number of people here, and they are all crazy about it. It’s a Korean show, and I watch it with subtitles, but you can set it to play in English. Attorney Woo Young Woo is the first autistic attorney in Korea. She has a photographic memory. She is utterly charming, adorable, and weird. It’s a comedy.

Try “Her Majesty” on Netflix. Set in Spain. The unpopular King of Spain has to flee to Latin America because his corruption is discovered, and his party-girl 29 year old daughter has to take the throne. It’s a comedy. She learns and gets better at it.

On Amazon Prime, try “Decline and Fall,” based on the 1936 novel by the great Evelyn Waugh. It’s a devastating, biting satire of English ways back then. Not well known in the U.S., but a cult classic in the U.K. Also, the new Agatha Christie show on Amazon Prime, “Towards Zero.” Very clever plotting. Both are just three episodes.

A few good series to watch:
Yellowstone
Newsroom (fantastic)
Suits (fantastic)
Landman
Reacher

Mayor of Kingstown—unnecessarily violent tale about nasty people, with no redeeming theme or characters. Ditched after two or three episodes.

Mayor of Kingstown, The Lincoln Lawyer, Ozark, and Goliath are all excellent!

Happy Valley

Agreed. Maybe DEI surfaced in UK? So many of the shows nowadays are situated up north, where the diction and accents are not proper Cambridgeshire or Londonian. Subtitles are a big help. Another observation, while most episodes of police procedure dramas in the USA feature gunplay and killing of perpetrators, the British shows rarely get violent, and they arrest the bad guys instead of killing them.

Agree, but that fake Bostonian accent from a British actress took some getting used to.

Dark Winds is kind of like Longmire, which is excellent. Virgin River is like a never ending Hallmark movie. I watched two episodes and hated it. Reacher is fun. Suits is good. The best series ever is The West Wing.

I really liked that.

Breaking Bad is on Netflix.

I could not get into that.

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Watching Dark Winds-very good. Reacher on Prime. Daredevil on Disney+. Monarch on Apple +. All excellent shows.

The Black Mirror on Netflix is interesting. It's sort of a modern Twilight Zone with different scenarios every episode. I've enjoyed most of them but a few are just ok.