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Hello! I'm here via James Nicoll's reading list.

I subscribed to BritBox when I found out they had Dalziel and Pascoe. I'd never seen the final season so that was a treat. Dalziel and Pascoe started out based on the Reginald Hill series. If you aren't familiar, Peter Pascoe is a newly minted college-educated detective sergeant teamed up with Andy Dalziel, a canny, up-through-the-ranks DI who sees all (usually) and is totally not politically correct.

I've since been expanding out and binging other police procedurals. I originally checked out Scott & Bailey because I recognized Lesley Sharp (playing Janet Scott) from the "Midnight" episode of Dr Who. I really enjoyed it.

Another rec for Line of Duty which I binged last weekend. I'm usually good at figuring out tricky plots but there are multiple people in this that I'm still not sure whether they're innocent or guilty. Maybe that's a spoiler. Britbox doesn't have the latest season (from last year) yet.

BritBox has some of Taggart as well which I adore. When they were being released as UK dvds, I got a colleague to buy a bunch of them (I couldn't order them from the US) and then picked them up when I visited on a work trip. It usually takes me several episodes to start understanding Glaswegian again. I have a feeling that it hasn't aged too well, particularly the early episodes.