What show (s) would you recommend to someone who wants to familiarise themselves with the British culture?

British culture isn't one thing. There are layers and tribes. Some people would say the British love of football is a defining cultural aspect of life, but I am English and have managed to avoid that because I hate football. Some would say Shameless and This Country are representative of a particular part of society, but my family were on benefits in my teens and no part of those shows is familiar or resonates with me The shows which I can recognise my family in are Outnumbered, and Detectorists; neither upper class nor council estate, not rich but not poor, not middle class in terms of money and schooling but maybe thereabouts in terms of interests and self-education. I feel equally embarrassed abroad by stag parties and football hooligans and entitled upper class twits. I'd like to think my tribe is in the majority but I'm not sure they are That said, there are a few things....To avoid the pitfalls of dealing with the British, make sure you can distinguish Scots, Welsh, English and Irish. Know the difference between public, private and state schools. Always apologize even if they bumped into you/poked you with an umbrella/ stood on your foot. Be aware of our habit of national understatement. Raging fires have ravaged the countryside in Greece and apocalyptic temperatures are blanketing italy? "I see it's a tad warm in the med at the moment." In a reversal of European habit people don't talk about work to their relatives and do talk about family to colleagues No one talks about money or how much they paid for things, unless they are that worst of things in my late grandma's eyes: vulgar. No one talks on public transport except to ask someone to move. The more outlandish the traveller, the more studiously they ignore them Everyone can talk about the weather, endlessly. And are never prepared for it.