Four excellent episodes in the police-interrogation series Criminal UK

 I'm really glad to see the return for Season 2 of the Netflix series Criminal, with the first installment the season 4 episodes of Prisoner UK (if the pattern of Season 1 is to be continued we should soon see return of Criminal France and Germany). Each 50-minute segment centers on the police interrogation of a suspect, with most of the drama taking place inside the interrogation room with some of the drama involving as well other members of the police team watching the interrogation through a one-way mirror and w/ occasional meetings and discussions in the hallway outside the interrogation room (and some whimsical touches amid the extremely tense dramas, usually involving the vending machines in the hallway). Each segment is like a powerful one-act play - some better or at least more credible than others, but all well acted and with the tension heightened by an eerie soundtrack. Of the 4 in the new UK series I found the strongest to be the interrogation of a young businessman/entrepreneur accused of raping one of his employees. Other episodes entail a would-be jailhouse snitch who offers up info on the casing of a missing young boy, a woman who poses online as a teenage girl in order to entrap and she hopes convict sex offenders, and a woman charged w/ murder in a case involving administration of Rx to someone supposedly in her care (I had a lot of trouble following this one - made even more difficult by the unfamiliar British accents and by the disconcerting echoic effects that distort some of the dialog - my bad).   Despite these quibbles, each episode holds you fast start to finish, and as Season 2 rolls out, I hope, we will once again see some of the cultural contrasts between the police procedures in each of the countries (all quite different from police interrogations in the U.S., in a # of ways).