Spiral (2005)

France, Best Drama Series 2015. The great French police drama, and a proper long haul: eight seasons from 2005 to 2020. It opens with the body of a young woman found on a Paris dump and follows detectives, prosecutors, judges and defense lawyers as the case spreads into corruption. What sets Spiral apart is that the legal system gets as much screen time as the police, and nobody in either keeps clean hands. The early seasons are a little rough around the edges; by the middle run it is as good as any crime series anywhere.