So along with trying to catch a psycho killer, the foursome also has to battle chauvinism and gender discrimination.

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The shows are twistier, grittier, wittier, and just more fun, while remaining highbrow (but, of course).

Season three of Sherlock, which premieres on Sunday, January 19, runs for only three episodesalbeit 90-minute long ones, but still.

With our supersized American palates, were used to our 13 to 23 episode-long runs, dammit So if youre a Brit TV mystery addict like me and are in the midst of a serious withdrawal, go on a bender with one or all of these six stellar shows.

And say goodbye to your weekend because theyre all available to stream on Netflix.

Over the course of six seasons, the duo solves crimes in and around scenic Londonfrom swanky boarding schools to lush country estatesand explore hierarchies between gender and class.

The most fun part: You get a sneak peek at early now-famous-in-America guest stars, including a pre- Superman Henry Cavill (British teeth and all) playing a scrawny schoolboy, and in another episode, an apparently always-hunky Idris Elba and baby-faced James McAvoy engaging in a very genteel fistfight.

Right now everyone is freaking out over the star after blockbusters like Pacific Rim and Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom, but real fans already know his awesomeness from watching Luther first.

In a follow up to his role as the ruthless drug dealer Russell Stringer Bell on The Wire, Elba plays John Luther, a broody and, dare I say, morally compromised police detective working in the British version of a Major Case Squad.

His wife left him, hes prone to scary bouts of violence, and he has loads of addictive chemistry with a sexy serial killer played by Ruth Wilson.

The show only ran for three seasons, but the creator is teasing a feature film version.

Foyles War is set in the small seaside town of Hastings during World War II.

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The main character, Chief Superintendent Christopher Foyle (played by the excellent Michael Kitchen) solves local crimes along with his female driver Sam Stewart (played by the excellently named Honeysuckle Weeks) and Detective Seargent Paul Milner (played by Anthony Howell).

While the show is set in the mid-to-late 40s, the plotlines and underlying messages of each episode draw analogies relevant to todays headlines spying, racial and ethnic profiling, and a returning prisoner of war storyline with echoes of Abu Ghraib, to name a few.

Keep an eye out for the dashing young man who plays Foyles fighter pilot son, Andrew (played by Julian Ovenden).

Youll soon see him trying to get with Lady Mary on this season of Downton Abbey.

But for the millennial Anglophile TV generation, we have Inspector Lewis, with Morses sidekick Inspector Lewis (played by Kevin Whately) as the lead crime solver.

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The series is set in Oxford and for once, England isnt rainy all the time.

The shows main attraction is the chemistry between its two leads, who dont just play to the typical old guyyoung newbie tropes.

Working class Lewiscomplete with a Geordie accentpartners and banters with the junior, introspective Detective Sergeant James Hathaway (played by Laurence Fox).

Hathaways fancy Cambridge degree and earlier stint as an aspiring priest give the duo an edge up on those intellectually esoteric twists that tend to pop up during Oxford-based murders.

And another aesthetic bonus: Hathaway has quite possibly the best skinny suit and tailored coat collection in all of British crime TV.

When a spat of serial killings hits the headlines, now-stay-at-home mother of two Susan (played by Anna Maxwell Martin) gathers her all-girl gang of former code-breaking colleaguesrebellious waitress Millie (Rachel Stirling), librarian (Julie Graham), and timid housewife with a photographic memory Lucy (Sophie Rundle) to break the pattern and find the perp.