Five British Shows You Should Be Watching on Netflix
A Bit of Fry and Laurie: a bit of all right.
Netflix: the cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems! OK, that's wrong (and kind of plagiarized), but Netflix is still fantastic. One of the biggest benefits of the service, especially the Watch Instantly feature, isn't just seeing movies and TV shows you know and love, but getting to check out stuff that, just a few years ago, would have been inaccessible. This is especially true for shows from England.
Stuff from across the pond is often notoriously hard to come by on DVD, especially given the annoying problem of region coding and global shipping. But the Internet -- the glorious Internet -- means we can finally see those series from start to finish and with high picture quality instead of having to catch chunks on YouTube or resorting to low-res torrents. It doesn't matter if you're an Anglophile, either. These are great shows that all TV fans need to see.
Luther
Idris Elba proved on The Wire that he's a stone-cold badass, but on BBC's Luther, he plays a cop, not a killer. Elba plays Detective Chief Inspector John Luther, an obsessive genius working murder cases while trying to sort out his own emotional problems. On paper that sounds like, well, every other cop show in history, but the acting and storytelling here are standouts.
For fans of: Crime Story, The Wire, awesome and challenging stories.
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