Personally, I consider American movies and TV to be over-the-top melodrama, and I prefer British movies and TV because they are (generally) quite understated and thus more realistic.
Of course, YMMV.
On the other hand, there ARE a few exceptional, extremely gritty, British shows. But the mainstream British shows are more realistic, true to life than mainstream US shows.
Expecting management robots to explain what they are doing is a joke. They are replaced at higher frequencies than the shows.