Dalgliesh (Seasons 1–3)

Dalgliesh (2021) is a British detective series you can watch online on iFILM. Set in 1970s England, each case adapts a novel by P.D. James, one of the defining names in British crime fiction.

Adam Dalgliesh is a senior detective, newly widowed and a published poet. He cracks cases less through forensics than through people — reading grief, motive and the quiet rot beneath respectable surfaces. Bertie Carvel plays him with reserve and a banked sadness, and Carvel even stepped behind the camera to direct an episode himself.

This is slow, literary crime for viewers who want mood and psychology over car chases: shuttered estates, a nursing college, a remote parish, the secrets of provincial England. If Inspector Morse and Grantchester are your kind of evening, this lands squarely in that company. Stream every episode of Dalgliesh online on iFILM.