PBS's 'The Escape Artist': When blandness is the perfect defense

We could talk for days and still not land on the reason why a fairly pedestrian, certainly predictable and too-long-by-a-third contemporary legal thriller just looks and feels so much better when it's British. Who can explain this? Surely it involves at least a subliminal case of Anglophilia, causing a viewer to overlook the same flaws (in plot, premise, acting, editing) that we see in the courts-and-crime fare offered up by American cable networks like USA and TNT. If Franklin & Bash & Rizzoli ...