Broadchurch, Downtown Abbey, Sherlock, The Crown, ... These English series fascinate us and immerse us in a timeless universe where we escape easily, between police investigations, historical events and romantic stories. The costumes, the British charm and the mesmerizing landscapes are certainly for something ... Discover these unavoidable English series to which you will quickly become addicted, from the most famous to the new ones!

  • Broadchurch

It is certainly the most accessible English series, since it is broadcast on France 2. With season 3 coming tonight, the British crime series confirms its success. The story ? A duo of complementary policemen in a small English village in Dorset (largely rural England). The intrigues are breathless, the characters are endearing and the frame contributes to the English charm we love to find in the series. There is even an American adaptation, but we remain faithful to the British style, more authentic.

Series to watch on France 2.

  • Call the midwife

The English drama-style series, released in 2012, takes place in the East End, London, in 1957. It features graduated midwives, including young Jenny Lee, who is about to enter the workforce. . If she thinks of making her first professional steps in a hospital, this is actually happening in the Nonnatus House convent. She will discover the harsh reality of a disadvantaged neighborhood, and also meet women who are real heroines.

Series to watch on Netflix.

  • The Crown

On the eve of the release of the season 2 available next December, we are back in season 1 of a historic English series. Indeed, The Crown traces the life course of Queen Elizabeth II, from her youth when she is not pretended to the throne to her change of destiny and the way she appropriates and shapes her role as queen of England, which she learns from A to Z from the age of 25. Must see if you are in love with England, London and the British Royal Family.

Series to watch on Netflix.

  • Peaky Blinders

This series brings together a police genre and a historical genre. Peaky Blinders takes place in 1919 in Birmingham, when soldiers, criminals and political revolutionaries fight to make their mark after the First World War. The Shelby family nicknamed the "Peaky Blinders" compared to their use of razor blades hidden in their caps, mainly draw their money from betting and theft. The fiercest, Tommy Shelby will encounter some difficulties after the arrival of the new chief of police, Campbell, whose mission is to clean the city. A woman will be grafted to the scenario, whose past shady assimilated to a dangerous intriguing secret ...

Series to watch on Netflix, soon on Arte.

  • Downtown Abbey

If the series ended recently, it has 6 seasons on its counter. If you discover them only now, you are sure to chain them quickly as the episodes are taking. Downtown Abbey tells the story of a family, the Crawley, and its servants, from 1912, right after the sinking of the Titanic that makes disappear the only male heir to the estate. Indeed, the Crawley have only girls and they can not claim the title or the legacy of Downtown Abbey, inseparable from the family fortune. A distant cousin will arrive, Matthew Crawley, but the British series following the chronology of history, the first world war will rock the fate of each of the characters ...

Series to watch on Netflix.

  • Trust me

Last born (it dates from 2017), the British series tells the story of a nurse, Cath Hardacre (Jodie Whittaker who played in Broadchuch and Black Mirror), who loses his job. Having to provide for herself and her desperate daughter, she decides to steal the identity of a recent doctor friend from Edinburgh to rebuild her life. She will be able to get hired as a doctor and this is the beginning of a dramatic adventure between her real identity and her "new life" where she becomes a doctor and has to juggle past and present, more difficult than expected .

Series to watch on the BBC.

  • Black Mirror

While usually the British series make us go through the ages, Black mirror is certainly the most current and futuristic British series. The title also refers to ubiquitous screens that constantly send us back to our reflection, all under a satirical angle. Black Mirror analyzes our era and plunges us into the near future, staging unexpected consequences of technologies, including the behavior of its users. An English series of anticipation of which each episode has a casting, a setting and a different reality. No need, therefore, to follow all the episodes.

Series to watch on Netflix.

  • Sherlock

Featuring the acclaimed Benedict Cumberbatch, the English detective series is a free adaptation of novels and short stories by Arthur Conan Doyle and his hero detective Sherlock Holmes and his sidekick Dr. Watson, a former British army doctor wounded in London. Afghanistan. Through the seasons, Sherlock Holmes will help Scotland Yard solve investigations, especially with technology, since the story unfolds in our time. The British series perfectly succeeds in the challenge of transposing the character into a contemporary context.

Series to watch on France Télévisions (France 2 and France 4)

  • Poldark

The English TV series takes place in Cornwall at the end of the 18th century. It features the character of Ross Poldark who returns from the American War of Independence to find his fiancée. But on his return, he will face a world in ruins and will not have good news from his relatives. Her father died, the family mine closed, and her partner was finally engaged to her cousin, the wealthy Francis Poldark. After Downton Abbey, this is the new English historical series to look at absolutely. With the energy of desperation, he will try to reclaim his life, open the mine again, try to save his estate and hire a servant, the whimsical Demelza.

Series to watch on Netflix.