Broadchurch: The Complete First Season (DVD)

You will have to stay up late because you won't be able to stop watching this series. It was very engrossing!

This series has much to recommend it, not least of which is David Tennent. The entire cast creates a remarkable atmosphere of an idyllic town forced to face the stark realities in a child's death. Using a trend I see more frequently in British television of each episode digging deeper into the details of a single story line, the effect of this is phenomenal. No longer are mysteries cozily solved in an hour. This places the observer(me and you) in a new position. We must use our brains, looking at all the details and pulling them together to determine the murderer before the detectives. Usually not to difficult to solve the case from our armchair in an hour, but the wealth of detail causes us to scratch our head and rethink the solution. Bravo and thank you to the writers, directors, producers,and actors; you have just taken the wonderful cozy British murder and brought it into the 21st Century. I look forward to season 2 of Broadchurch.