You find its DNA all over a show like Mare of Easttown. Created by Sally Wainwright, and centering on a woman police sergeant in the Calder Valley of West Yorkshire, it set the gold standard for crime series anchored by complicated women. The most popular of this bunch is Happy Valley, the BBC crime series that became an instant sensation when it premiered in 2014. The exact opposite was true in Britain, where the defining titles of the 21st century - Fleabag, Killing Eve, I May Destroy You - are by and about women. In America, these touchstones tended to skew extremely male - The Sopranos, The Wire, Mad Men, Breaking Bad. It wasn't so long ago that a handful of shows were commonly offered as examples of how good television can be. Sarah Lancashire plays big-hearted police sergeant Catherine Cawood in Happy Valley.
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