TV Talk Rec Fest: Mysteries or Horror

[yourlibrarian]

Welcome to day 5 of Rec Fest! Today please recommend shows which could be considered mysteries or horror. While these two formats can be quite different there may also be overlaps at times. Mysteries might include procedurals, detective series, or dramas which center on a mystery which runs for the whole series or on a season by season basis. Horror often includes supernatural events but may also overlap with the suspense genre where dread and fear predominate.

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Show Title:
Audience Rating: Young Children/All Ages/Teen and Up/Mature Content
Warnings: (Could include gory content, raunchy situations, explicit sex, offensive content, etc.)
Length of Episodes: (30 minutes/1 hour/Other)
Length of Series: (Number of seasons or number of episodes)
Why you recommend it: (What draws you to it? What niche does it fill/mood is it good for?)

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Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries

[yourlibrarian]

Show Title: Miss Fisher Murder Mysteries
Audience Rating: Teen and up
Warnings: None I can think of
Length of Episodes: 1 hour
Length of Series: 3 Seasons (34 episodes)
Why you recommend it: Adapted somewhat loosely from a books series (from what I understand), this show won me over for various reasons. The first is that Phryne is a self-confident, adventurous, uninhibited mature woman in 1920s Australia (and I use "mature" in its actual sense, not as a euphemism for a woman in her late middle or elderly years). The second is that she has a way of developing strong relationships with everyone around her, so her little band of conspirators and helpers grows as the series goes on.

I can't say the mysteries themselves are all that interesting, and for me the attraction of the show is entirely with the characters. I happen to find her relationship with Inspector Jack Robinson to be well worth watching for on its own as the two leads had enormous chemistry. A cozy view and an entertaining one, the show ended too soon.