There aren’t many crime thrillers that can twin a twee English vicarage with an American maximum-security prison. It would be like splicing the film Arsenic and Old Lace into Dead Man Walking. And that’s what makes Inside Man so odd and so tantalizing: over four episodes, an American death-row inmate, played by Stanley Tucci, gets involved in investigating a murder he had nothing to do with among people he doesn’t know, including an upstanding clergyman played by David Tennant. The series is dark and a bit creepy, yet often funny. It is also highly suspenseful, which makes sense given that it was created by Steven Moffat, whose credits include Sherlock and the revival of Doctor Who. —Alessandra Stanley