‘Gritty and dark’: The best British crime thrillers on Netflix right now

Here are our top picks of the good cops from the bad ones (Picture: BBC)

When our descendants look back upon the genre that has most governed the British TV-watching public’s tastes, they could very likely land upon the crime thriller.

It’s gritty, it’s darkly humoured, it’s occasionally bleak – what could be better suited to our national sensibilities?

Thanks to some robust commercial partnerships (wait, don’t fall asleep), there is an embarrassment of riches when you stumble upon Netflix‘s binge-worthy British crime shows. They literally have an entire genre category for it.

Whether it’s hard-boiled coppers, cunning criminals o...