AND YOUR NEXT FIX

SPIRAL — iPlayer: Captain Laure Berthaud (Caroline Proust, below) might be the toughest female cop ever seen on TV. She treats her romances like cage-fights. These stories of the Paris underworld are dark, gritty and bad for your blood pressure. Eight series, 2006-2021.

THE SHIELD — Amazon Prime: Politics and corrupt policing mingle on the streets of Los Angeles. It’s cynical, hard-bitten and ruthless, from the heartland of film noir. Seven series, 2002-2008.

BABYLON BERLIN — NowTV: As Nazi thugs take over post-war Germany, shell-shocked Inspector Gereon Rath (Volker Bruch) joins forces with goodtime girl Charlotte Ritter (Liv Lisa Fries) to find a murderer . . . and uncovers much more. Three series, 2017-2020.

LUPIN — Netflix: Inspired by a 19th century detective story, Assane Diop (Omar Sy) — a thief and son of a Senegalese immigrant in France — plots his vengeance on the arrogant millionaire who drove his father to suicide. Diop is elegant, cunning, a gentleman thief in the mould of Arsene Lupin . . . the French equivalent of Raffles. So far only five episodes have been released, but the show has fans on tenterhooks. One season, 2021.

MONEY HEIST — Netflix: Possibly the maddest crime show ever. A group of bank robbers, controlled by a mastermind who calls himself The Professor, blockade themselves into Spain’s national mint and start printing a fortune. Hilariously exciting. Four series, 2017-2020.

THE BRIDGE — iPlayer: At first, it was the mystery that mattered. This was a murder designed to shock and confuse the police of two countries. But as the show unfolded, the crime became secondary to the characters and especially to Swedish detective Saga Noren (Sofia Helin). What we cared about most was to see her find some kind of happiness, in place of that perpetual expression of pain and puzzlement. Four seasons, 2011-2018.