Criminal is a series of four Netflix police procedural anthology TV series set in four countries.
The series was devised by its showrunners George Kay and Jim Field Smith,[1] and produced by their company Idiotlamp Productions.
[2] 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,[3][4] but all four individual local series were shot on the same set in Madrid, Spain.
[6] A second series of Criminal: UK, consisting of four episodes, was released on 16 September 2020.
[7] Each episode is a stand-alone psychological drama, consisting of the interrogation of an individual by a team of police investigators.