I think British tv series have to focus on crime solving/policing because they’ve decided to rewrite so much of their history.

Homosexuality? A few people were against it, but most people were cool with it and accepted it. Downton Abbey is perfect example. Carter, couldn’t stand to say the name of prostitute Ethel because she had sex with one of her betters. How dare she? In the Abbey, no less? No reference for her!

Meanwhile, Thomas is fucking dukes and propositioning poor Mr Pamuck and Jimmy the footman.

Carter is all, “Well, he can’t help it, it’s the way God made him.”

Racism didn’t really exist. Only a few people were racist.

Ok, only *one* person was racist.

That one person made a racist remark and the rest of the cast says, “Don’t worry, that’s just old man Jenkins. Pay him no mind. His wife was accidentally knocked down by a Caribbean cab driver.”

By the end of the episode the POC saves Mr Jenkins with CPR. Mr Jenkins now respects POC and asks, “Can you ever forgive a mean old man? He’s gone now. I’m a new man and I’ve joined the rest of the non-racist British world.”

Class differences? There were a few snobs. But times were changing! The lord and lady of the manor discussed the house maid taking up typing. “I say, the redhead from Game of Thrones ….she’s taken up typing? Do we really pay her enough to buy one of those machines?”

“Her name is Gwen and I’m taking her to a job interview tomorrow, Daddy, then we’re going to the pub for Ladies Night. May we have the firebrand socialist Irish catholic chauffeur who reads political history books in your library?”

“Why yes, of course! There’s a nice communist rally you can attend as well.”

The social problems of the past can no longer be used to add dramatic tension to tv shows. Even The Crown had everyone saying Margaret could marry Peter Townshend. It was just Tommy — that mean old Tommy — who tricked poor Margaret.

So British tv shows turn to detectives - non racist, egalitarian, diversity-positive, non-classist, homophilic, female-positive male detectives (maybe even a lesbian detective) to solve the convoluted case of a genius killer who communicates his motives through clues in 18th century landscape paintings