Many Afterworders may have seen threads of the brilliant French crime thriller series Spiral over recent years, but felt left out because you were late to the party.

Well the party is starting all over again. Prior to showing Season 8 next year, BBC iPlayer has made all seven previous series available.

The plots are brilliant, engaging, thrilling, scary and superbly resolved.

Depending on your preference you can swoon over Audrey Fleurot or Grégory Fitoussi or Caroline Proust or Fred Bianconi. Or not.

I feel tempted to spend days, deep diving into the whole brilliant morass once again. Emerging occasionally from my darkened room to engage with the real world.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0074sk6/spiral-series-1-episode-1