''Criminal'' is a series of four
Netflix
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police procedural
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anthology TV series set in four countries. The four series are ''
Criminal: France'', ''
Criminal: Germany'', ''
Criminal: Spain'', and ''
Criminal: UK''. The series was devised by its
showrunners
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George Kay and
Jim Field Smith, and produced by their company
Idiotlamp Productions. Although the showrunners are based in the UK, each of the local three-part series is written and performed in that country's native language by native actors,
but all four individual local series were shot on the same set in
Madrid
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, Spain.
[ All four series were released simultaneously in September 2019.]psychological drama
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, consisting of the interrogation
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of an individual by a team of police investigators. Every scene is confined to just three areas in a single location; a police interrogation room, a darkened viewing room that looks into the interrogation room through a one-way mirror
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, and the hallway and stairwell outside the rooms.
Episodes
''Criminal: France''
''Criminal: Germany''
''Criminal: Spain''
''Criminal: UK''
Season 1 (2019)
Season 2 (2020)
References
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Netflix original programming
Television franchises introduced in 2019