Criminal is a series of four police procedural anthology TV series, set in four countries, made for Netflix. The four series are Criminal: France, Criminal: Germany, Criminal: Spain, and Criminal: UK.
Contents
Premise
Each episode is a stand-alone psychological drama, consisting of the interrogation 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, and the hallway and stairwell outside the rooms.
Production
The series was devised by its showrunners 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 (UK, France, Germany, and Spain) 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, Spain.
Release
All four series were released simultaneously in September 2019. A second series of Criminal: UK, consisting of four episodes, was released on 16 September 2020.