Telly Toppers

For the eighth consecutive time, the British TV blog The Killing Times has begun releasing its selections of what it says are the “Top 20 Crime Dramas of the Year.” Its presentation comes in four parts, with the first one available here. The opening five choices are The Sinner (Series 4), Holding, Karen Pirie, The Tourist, and Sisterhood.

Expect to see more picks roll out as this week progresses.

In his introduction, founding editor Paul Hirons offers at least a few clues as to what we can expect. “Of course,” he writes, “there were things that just missed out [on being included]—Hjerson, The Whitstable Pearl, Wisting, Bosch: Legacy and Bloodlands, for instance; and Black Sands, The Patient and Netflix’s much-maligned Dahmer we didn’t get to see. And not having Trapped—a former crime drama of the year winner—in an end-of-year crime list (or Entrapped as series three called itself) felt like pure heresy.”

FOLLOW-UP: The Killing Times has finally posted all four parts of its “Top 20 Crime Dramas of the Year” package. You’ll find them here: 20–16, 15–11, 10–6, and 5–1.