We like to watch the Brit series too on Netflix because the acting is good and the writing for them is much better and you are correct. Many actors over there do not get paid the same high wages as they do here.
Plus over there they don’t have the women looking like they are ready for a cocktail dinner first thing in the morning.
We just finished watching Broadchurch which had none of the homosexuality, and was more of a family crime who did it.
If you have DirectTV, you get BBCA as part of most packages free-Musketeers, Dr. Who and all-the aforementioned Brit neighbor got me into it.