Vera (Seasons 1–14)

Vera (2011) is a British crime drama from ITV Studios you can watch online on iFILM. Brenda Blethyn plays DCI Vera Stanhope — an abrasive, solitary detective who works the northeast England beat and takes on murders, kidnappings, and blackmail cases that nobody else can crack. She looks like she wandered in from a car boot sale. But she never misses a thing.

Vera lives alone on a remote farm, keeps everyone at arm's length, and runs her cases like a controlled obsession. Her team — DC Kenny Lockhart, DC Mark Edwards, DC Steph Duncan — learns to follow where she leads even when her logic seems impenetrable. Each episode stands alone as a self-contained mystery, though the character deepens across all fourteen seasons and fifty-six episodes. The cases stay grim and grounded: no glamour, no easy answers, just wet fields and hard questions.

The series wrapped in 2024 after fourteen years on air — a long run by any measure. Stream every season of Vera online on iFILM.