All episodes are streaming on HBO Max.Īnd, of course, Unforgotten Seasons 1-4 are streaming on PBS Passport as well.Like many American women, I’ve been fascinated by the looming specter of stranger danger since childhood.
The show only has one season right now (though Winslet is openly angling for a renewal). In Season 1, Mare investigates the murder of a recent teen mother, Erin, while also probing two other teenage girls' disappearances which may or may not be connected.
Though the series is set in America (small-town Pennsylvania with Wawa hoagies to match), it stars the British-born Winslet as the titular Mare and Australian-born Guy Pearce as the new author in town who catches her eye. Kate Winslet stars in the Emmy nominated HBO series Mare of Easttown as the most recent female detective fiction on TV. The show's first season, which focuses on the death of Eliza's father, Henry ( Kevin Doyle), and her struggle to establish herself, is streaming on PBS Passport. Masterpiece recently picked up the series for a second season, expected to arrive in 2022-2023. Stuart Martinco-stars as the "Duke," her Detective Inspector/possible love interest, William Wellington Kate Phillipsstars as Eliza Scarlet, a middle-class city girl rebelling against all social mores and standards by insisting on running her own detective business instead of settling down to marriage. The most recent mystery added to the Masterpiece lineup, Miss Scarlet & The Duke, is the fictionalized story of London's first female detective, set in the era of Sherlock Holmes. Season 2 turns it around with Cawood accused of murder after the suspicious death of Royce's mother.
The two-season series focuses on Becky's death, first with Cawood obsessed with the man who raped her daughter, leading to her suicide, the recently-out-of-prison Tommy Lee Royce. Catherine and Clare ( Siobhan Finneran) are two sisters living together and raising Catherine's grandson Ryan, who was left orphaned after the suicide of Cat's teenage daughter Becky. Sarah Lancashirestars as PS Catherine Cawood in Happy Valley, a series that may look like a police procedural but is really a show about a mother's grief. All seasons are streaming on PBS Passport. With Season 6 debuting later this fall and Season 7 already filming for 2022, this is the perfect time to get acquainted with the world of Grantchester, and its murder addled residents, not to mention the Keating family, the Davenports, and the vicarage where Will has found his real family. Earlier seasons featured James Nortonas the former vicar, Sidney Chambers. Tom Brittney stars as young vicar Rev Will Davenport and Robson Green as the grizzled DI Geordie Keating, who somehow find that solving mysteries of the world and the soul takes two of them together. Grantchester is currently the most popular entry in the "odd couple crime solvers in a small English town" model. Season 6 is exclusive to BritBox, which will be Line of Duty's home from now on. High-profile guest stars include Keeley Hawes ( The Durrels in Corfu), Thandiwe Newton ( Westworld), and most recently, Kelly Macdonald( Boardwalk Empire). Arnott winds up partnered with DC Kate Fleming ( Vicky McClure), an undercover specialist who embeds in a different office each season as the cases unfold, led by Superintendent Ted Hastings ( Adrian Dunbar).Įach fast-paced thriller season features a different police unit that comes under investigation. The series follows Steve Arnott ( Martin Compston), a counter-terrorism officer transferred to the police internal investigations office of AC-12 (Anti-Corruption Unit-12). Jed Mercurio's Line of Duty is one of the BBC's most-watched police procedural programs. Both Lewis and Endeavour are streaming on PBS Passport. But viewers who are just getting into the franchise can also watch and enjoy both series independently. The former stars Kevin Whately as DI Robert Lewis and Laurence Fox as his assistant DS James Hathaway in a modern-day crime fight, while the latter stars Shaun Evans as DS Endeavour Morse and Roger Allam as DI Fred Thursday in a 1960s-era look at Morse's early years.īoth shows call back to the popular Morse series, with Lewis' lead struggling to remember his old mentor's advice and Endeavour hinting at the Morse stories to come. Two of ITV's other major mystery shows, these Oxford-set Inspector Morse spinoffs, are both series in the same vein as Unforgotten, though with cases of the week rather than a single focused mystery over one season.