For Schitt’s Creek, I would say watch Season 1 episode 1 and episode 10 (the last of the season) then move straight to Season 2. After watching the whole show you may want to revisit season 1 but overall just watching the first and last of season 1 is a good way to get people to Season 2 after which they’re hooked 
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I saw the first 3 or 4 seasons of Death in Paradise (and only found out recently there were more seasons), but I wondered, “why would anyone go on vacation here - a lot of people are killed on this island!” 
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We’ve been watching and enjoying Line of Duty - liked season 2 better than season 1. Subtitles also helped me follow the storyline better.
It seems like a lot of British police shows have a lot of storylines going on and a lot of red herrings.
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Then may I suggest Vera. I needed a clean whiteboard every episode to keep track of all the players, twists, and red herrings and the Geordie accents (some better than others) might still require subtitles to understand.
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Just finished S6 of Shetland. Each episode ends with a cliffhanger, but MAN, did the season end with a CRAZY cliffhanger!!! How long before season 7, a year?
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I tape and watch Vera. I never thought of putting on subtitles, but I’ll try.
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Yup. I mentioned this up thread. It’s gonna be a long year. 
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Lol. Our family has watched every tv show with captions for decades. It started with wanting to watch tv while I was nursing in the middle of the night. And as a fast reader I just loved it. We put the sound back on but kept the captions. It’s just how we have every tv. My friend who is a reading specialist is convinced that watching with captions is the reason both my kids were excellent readers by the time they were 4.
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We need captions especially for British shows. I remember seeing Master and Commander at a theater and whispering to my wife “can we turn on the captions”? Once I watched it again at home, with captions, I got so much more out of it–one of my favorite films–I think it really shows what it must have been like to be on a sailing warship in that era.
But I digress!
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Not only do we use captions, but also audio descriptions. It is like having someone reading the screenplay directions “Susan walks into the room wearing a cocktail dress and a frown.” DH is vision impaired, so it is a huge help to him. I actually prefer it now, too. It will point out what I am supposed to be paying attention to, and these days that’s more helpful than I care to admit. Plus it is awesome when I am cooking and can’t always keep my eyes on the screen.
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Agree. I am repeatedly amazed at how poorly the British speak English. (smile emoji)
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Final Ozark season comes out three weeks from today.
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Watching Lilyhammer third season. I watched the first two around 2015. Then left it. We then in 2019 visited Lillyhammer and neighboring countries. It seems so much more real now. I’m having fun with it and Van Zandt.
I recently read an interview with him in 2013 0n Collider:
Steven Van Zandt Talks LILYHAMMER, Netflix’s Original Programming, Living and Working in Norway, and What He Hopes Viewers Get from Watching the Show.
The fact that Netflix took a chance on foreign TV and emersion in culture was interesting. The fact that their filming was 9-5 and they had a better work life culture was fascinating.
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I’m so excited!
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I hold some hope they’ll show Season 7 sooner since it’s been filmed already. I know youve said ‘probably not’ but still hoping 
I watch a lot of British TV so I can usually figure out what they are saying just fine, but we do watch with captions a lot too.
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I find that sometimes the “A” lister actors I can understand fine, but some of those Welsh supporting or extras…not as much 
Or some of the terms of endearment (“old bean” from Chummy in Call the Midwife) or words/phrases (“bent copper”) are just not American English, so the subtitles help me.
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I read a lot of British fiction too so I get a lot of the slang but closed captions always help.
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My mother used to call us “old bean” all the time, her family goes back almost to the Mayflower.
But agree that sometimes British English can be hard to understand. As Oscar Wilde said, “We really have everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language”.
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Another variation of that line is “two nations, separated by a common language”.
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