Vexed was a nice find on Netflix. I won't say it is a great detective show, I won't say it is the best comedy, and I won't say it is the best British comedy, but I will say it's worth watching because it was the last funny thing to come out of England. England used to be a place where comedy could be irreverent, where radio programs and television shows poked fun at prevailing pieties. Current television shows I'm seeing are either so tendentious to be unwatchable, or have an embarrassment-style humor that makes me feel like I'm watching Different Strokes. Vexed seems to have been written just before the UK went stupid. It has two seasons of very different character. Both have the same male lead, Toby Stephens DI Jack Armstrong, a lazy caricature of a chauvinistic detective, and the female lead changes between seasons, but present two different kinds of competent woman. In the first season the lead is Lucy Punch as DI Kate Bishop, an accomplished insp