43. BODYGUARD

If you missed the most-talked-about thriller last month, don’t worry, you can always catch up. It stars Richard Madden as David Budd, a heroic but volatile war veteran now working as a protection officer and assigned as the bodyguard to Keeley Hawes’s Home Secretary (right, with Madden). The plot, by Line Of Duty writer Jed Mercurio, zig-zags through the series as first Budd goes to bed with his new boss, then saves her from a terror attack and finally finds himself the chief suspect in a series of grisly murders. It richly deserves its place in this list. DVD, 1 series