Not many crime dramas can bring you to tears (ITV's original Broadchurch the most recent standard-bearer), but two new streaming standouts strike an impressive balance between sustaining suspense and powerful emotion.

Peacock's Long Bright River (eight episodes, all available), adapting Liz Moore's terrifically gritty novel, boasts one of the most intriguingly imperfect heroines since HBO's memorable Mare of Easttown in Mickey Fitzpatrick (Emmy winner Amanda Seyfried, The Dropout). She's a Philadelphia cop who patrols the depressed neighborhood where she grew up and from where her drug-addicted younger sister Kacey (Ashleigh Cummings) has gone missing.