C.B. Strike
Detective mysteryCrime-solving from the investigator's side of the table.This show: 10/10British TVThe British television sensibility: tone, restraint and format traditions.This show: 9/10Central duoOne pair's chemistry carries everything.This show: 8/10Slow burnDeliberate pacing where the payoffs are earned over long stretches.This show: 7/10Romantic yearningThe will-they-won't-they ache as the main draw.This show: 7/10Character studyInterior life matters more than plot.This show: 7/10Tight limited runA compact, complete story told in just a few episodes.This show: 7/10Secrets & liesHidden truths straining every relationship.This show: 7/10
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Starring
Tom BurkeHolliday GraingerKerr LoganJack GreenleesRuth SheenCaitlin Innes Edwards
Starring
Tom BurkeHolliday GraingerKerr LoganJack GreenleesRuth SheenCaitlin Innes Edwards
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C.B. Strike Episode Ratings Heatmap
| Avg | E1 | E2 | E3 | E4 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| S1 | 7.9 | 7.9 | 7.8 | 8.0 | ||
| S2 | 7.8 | 7.8 | 7.7 | |||
| S3 | 8.0 | 8.0 | 8.0 | |||
| S4 | 7.9 | 7.8 | 7.8 | 8.0 | 8.0 | |
| S5 | 8.3 | 8.1 | 8.1 | 8.3 | 8.6 | |
| S6 | 7.4 | 7.4 | 7.3 | 7.4 | 7.7 | |
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About
"A slow-burn partnership wrapped around dark British mysteries"
Adapted from Robert Galbraith's novels, this British series follows Cormoran Strike, a wounded ex-army private detective, and his sharp assistant-turned-partner Robin Ellacott as they untangle knotty, often grim London cases. Each season adapts one book across a handful of longer episodes, so the mysteries unfold at a patient, novelistic pace rather than a quick procedural clip. What really carries it is the slow-building partnership between the two leads, played with real chemistry, alongside moody atmosphere and cases that lean into class, celebrity, and family dysfunction rather than flashy twists.
Watch it for
the simmering partnership between Strike and Robin, which deepens with every case they crack.
Maybe skip if
you want fast, tightly-plotted procedurals rather than long, character-driven mystery novels stretched across episodes.
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The Cuckoo's Calling2017
7.95K32h 52m
Cormoran Strike, an injured war veteran turned PI, seeks the truth surrounding the mysterious death of supermodel Lula Landry alongside temp secretary, Robin Ellacott.
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The Silkworm2017
7.83K21h 59m
When novelist Owen Quine goes missing, his wife calls in private detective Cormoran Strike thinking her husband has gone off by himself for a few days—as he has done before. But as Strike investigates, it becomes clear that there is more to Quine's disappearance than his wife realizes.
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Career of Evil2018
8.02K21h 59m
When a mysterious package is delivered to Robin Ellacott, she is horrified to discover that it contains a woman's severed leg. Her boss, private detective Cormoran Strike, is less surprised but no less alarmed. With the police focusing on the one suspect Strike is increasingly sure is not the perpetrator, he and Robin take matters into their own hands, and delve into the dark and twisted worlds of the other three men. But as more horrendous acts occur, time is running out for the two of them...
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Lethal White2020
7.94K44h 6m
A troubled young man named Billy comes to private eye Cormoran Strike’s office to ask for his help investigating a crime he thinks he witnessed as a child. Strike and Robin set off on a twisting trail that leads them through the backstreets of London, into a secretive inner sanctum within Parliament and to a beautiful but sinister manor house deep in the countryside.
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Troubled Blood2022
8.34K44h 1m
Private detective Cormoran Strike is visiting his family in Cornwall when he’s approached by a woman, Anna Phipps asking for help finding her mother, Margot Bamborough, who went missing under mysterious circumstances in 1974. Never tackling a cold case before, he’s intrigued and takes it on, adding to the long list of cases that he and his partner are currently working on. As Strike and Robin investigate Margot’s disappearance, they come up against a fiendishly complex case with a psychopathic serial killer and witnesses who cannot all be trusted.
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The Ink Black Heart2024
7.43K4
When frantic, desperate Edie Ledwell appears in the office begging to speak to her, private detective Robin Ellacott doesn't know quite what to make of the situation. The co-creator of a popular cartoon, The Ink Black Heart, Edie is being persecuted by a mysterious online figure who goes by the pseudonym of Anomie. Edie is desperate to uncover Anomie's true identity.
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Full Cast & Crew
Cast
Tom Burke Cormoran Strike
Holliday Grainger Robin Ellacott
Kerr Logan Matthew Cunliffe
Jack Greenlees Sam Barclay
Ruth Sheen Pat Chauncey
Caitlin Innes Edwards Ilsa Herbert
Natasha O'Keeffe Charlotte Campbell
Christina Cole Izzy Chiswell
Killian Scott DI Eric Wardle
Sarah Sweeney Lucy
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