The 17 British TV Series on Netflix With the Highest Rotten Tomatoes Scores

Oh, Great Britain. We Americans have such a complicated relationship with you all. We pay worshipful attention to your royals, though mostly for the gossip. We gift you our finest cable dramas like Suits that keep future British royalty employed until it’s time to marry your ginger princes. We love cast your actors in the roles of great American figures in history and temperamental fictional doctors, and we all look the other way when the accents aren’t perfect. We make fun of your foods and the way you fill your pies with meat instead of Jell-O chocolate pudding, yet we cannot resist the nooks and crannies of a perfectly buttered English muffin. And we’ve really made a go of the whole Earl Grey tea thing! Don’t press it with that classic English breakfast, though; baked beans before noon are nothing but a recipe for farty work meetings.

Also we love your TV shows!

It should come as no surprise that British TV ends up being reviewed so positively on this side of the pond. British acting has long been held up as the gold standard, since Olivier at the very least. Brit comedies have formed the bedrock of some of our most lunatic laughers, and a good British crime procedural? [chef’s kiss] So it’s not a shock that Rotten Tomatoes has some pretty lofty percentages for the best of British TV. What makes it extra great is that this list includes everything from serial-killer hunts to rude school chums to gorgeous nature photography to pitch-black comedy about death. Basil Fawlty, Mary Berry, David Brent, and the Queen herself all rubbing elbows in Netflix’s most exclusive of all roped-off areas: British TV.

This list features the 17 best-reviewed British series currently streaming on Netflix, ranked by their Season 1 Rotten Tomatoes Critic Scores. They would make for a right proper to-do list of shows to binge, they would!