Pick of the week
Criminal Record
Despite its offputting generic title, this London-set police drama starring Cush Jumbo and Peter Capaldi is classy and engrossing from the start. Via a domestic violence callout from a Hackney phone box, Jumbo’s resourceful detective June Lenker stumbles across a potentially major miscarriage of justice involving a wrongful conviction. However, she makes the mistake of approaching the investigating officer on the case (Capaldi’s DCI Daniel Hegarty) head on – and before long, she’s on the back foot. Hegarty is clearly connected, and soon Lenker is being denied access to files and facing an invasive investigation by the internal monitoring team. What exactly has she uncovered?
Apple TV+, from Wednesday
