A golden age of TV thrillers: David Tennant's Escape Artist leads essential autumn dramas

Defence barrister Will Burton is the golden boy of his criminal chambers. Beadily aware of every legal loophole, Burton specialises in outwardly guilty-as-sin clients – on top of which, he has yet to lose a case. “Everyone deserves a defence” is his own defence for helping to acquit some particularly unsavoury characters, whose hands he has to think long and hard about shaking after securing their freedom. He enjoys gaming the rules, but he doesn't care to inspect the human misery obscured by his clever legal arguments. And then Burton is persuaded to defend an arrogant psychopath whom all the evidence suggests has sadistically murdered a young woman. Will this be a case too far? I don't...