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I've been watching Monk clips on Youtube. What are your favorite mystery or detective fandoms?

Monk is one of my faves as well, oh man... and Poirot! David Suchet's Poirot is SO good. Like, Poirot hits the same desire for a detective who is SO fussy and SO observant, which is my favorite thing ever. We love Marple, too, but Poirot is, for me, more fun to spend time with.

Tenspeed and Brown Shoe, I think you can find the entirety of it on youtube still, it's only like eleven episodes. It's certainly very of-the-eighties but good fun.

Columbo, for SURE. They air it late at night and sometimes when I'm up with the ol' insomnia I put it on very quietly in the background while I do some stitching or a puzzle. The how-do-they-get-caught formula takes getting used to if you're a primarily whodunit fan, but knowing who the killer is leads to a totally different type of tension!

Psych I preferred the earlier seasons of and kind of fell out of love with when the Shawn/Juliet stuff came in but she didn't know his secret.

Murdoch Mysteries sometimes really gets me and sometimes the personal drama side is too stressful to enjoy the mysteries.

Father Brown is up there for sure.

Midsomer Murders I'm not like... engaged in any actual *fandom* for but I really enjoy the show on the whole, I like the way it's paced.

I'm sure I'm leaving a bunch out, because like... in this house we love shows where mysteries get solved!

And of course Sherlock Holmes, but I have strong opinions about adaptations.

Sherlock Holmes, the short stories and the Granada adaptation with Jeremy Brett
Midsomer Murders - kind of goofy, but fun
Father Brown mysteries - same, post WWII English village setting
Agatha Raisin - more goofy amateur detective, modern setting
New Tricks - kickass female DI leading a bunch of old retired farts, hijinks ensue
Inspector Morse/Endeavour
Inspector Lynley - older British series with posh guy and his scrappy take-no-shit sergeant
Unforgotten - not a very well known British series in the U.S., but a good and thoughtful one despite difficult material
Wallander - both Swedish TV series and the BBC adaptation with Kenneth Branaugh
Pokerface had a nice, updated Columbo feel to it and I like the more episodic nature of the series
C.S. Harris' Sebastian St. Cyr novels, where a viscount (and later his awesome wife) solve mysteries in the Regency era

Sherlock Holmes original books and the Jeremy Brett versions
CSI original up till Warrick died and New York
most Agatha Christie
there are probably a lot more but those are the ones I can think of right now

Psych! I love love love love love Psych, one of my comfort canons. X-Files too if we're including procedurals generally. Criminal Minds too, I suppose. Elementary - I love the original Holmes canon too but I'm not fannish about it.

For books, definitely the Dorothy Sayers Wimsey books (which I recommend in the strongest possible terms). Also I've read a lot of other detective and mystery fiction, mostly older writers, although like the Holmes stories I'm not necessarily fannish about them. A few that I particularly like.... definitely Elizabeth Daly's Henry Gammadge series, which is basically about a very urbane New York book collector, it's really charming and well done and it's fun to see the New York 1930s upper-crust setting. Similarly the Rex Wolfe Nero Stout stories are an absolute delight. And I also like some of the hardboiled stuff as well once in a while.

One of my comfort fandoms is the old Perry Mason show. It's supposed to be a legal show but one of the main characters is a private eye and every single episode revolves around saving the innocent client by finding the real murderer.

Oh, I loooooooooooooove the old Perry Mason show, it's *so* good.

inspired by secret #1 for people who are looking for canons that are more adult-focused

Hannibal
Killing Eve
Star Trek
Stargate
MCU (until Endgame anyway)
The Good Place

Our Flag Means Death--entirely adults, with the main characters in their 40s

Good Omens--the main characters are 6000+ years old, though there are kid characters as well

Even megafandoms like the MCU have mostly adult characters, though the fandoms skew young. A lot of fandoms skew surprisingly young (e.g. Our Flag Means Death).

Classic lit fandoms don't seem to attract as many teens, so I'll note that both Moby Dick and Dracula have group reads going on. The main characters in both books are probably mid-20s, but with prominent older (and in some cases immortal) characters as well.

I have odd taste, but...

Our Flag Means Death - 30s/40s/50s

9-1-1 - 30s/40s/50s

9-1-1: Lone Star - Mostly 30s/40s/50s with a couple in their late 20s

Law & Order: SVU - A couple in their 30s, mostly 40s/50s

FBI - 30s/40s

(Some of them have recurring kid/teenager characters, usually the kids of the mains, but the mains are all adults.)

Tuca & Bertie

I know X-men can potentially have a focus on teenagers depending on which universe/version you go for - but when I first got into it, it was with the original animated series and the first two movies before getting into the comics (to this day I have the world's biggest soft spot for Wolverine/Nightcrawler and Erik/Charles)

Also:
House MD
Allo' Allo'
Red Dwarf
Futurama
Doctor Who (both classic and reboot)
Star Trek Deep Space 9
Sherlock Holmes (In my heart, the Granada series)
Supernatural
Antique Bakery

The most popular characters in Discworld are a 40-something+ (because the characters age) policeman (with bonus awesome middle aged fat, dragon-shelter running, society lady wife) his 40+ boss, and a 70+ witch.

The Vorkosigan Saga books by Lois McMaster Bujold start with an 18 year old protagonist but follow him into his early 40s, and that's not counting the books focused on his parents. And Bujold's Five Gods novels, especially her Chalion books, have older protagonists.

The Sandman has teen and 20 something characters but so far the biggest ship is two immortals (the eponymous main character who's ~14 billion years old, and his ~660s boytoy, heh) played by a 37 and 34 year old, respectively.

The protagonists of T. Kingfisher's White Rat novels are mostly or all 30s-ish (or immortal and stuck in enchanted swords.) Also there's a standalone, Nettle and Bone, with a protagonist in her 30s, and a pair of awesome older witches.

Idk how Once Upon a Time fandom is holding up these days, but almost all the characters were late 20s on up, and my OTP was played by an actress in her late 20s to mid 30s and an actor in his 50s.

A good chunk of superheroes are adults.

All the Lord of the Rings characters are adults, even if some are meant to be the equivalent of 20-somethings (but are idk, 50s? because hobbits age differently.)

I'm a Christine/Erik shipper, but the most popular Phantom of the Opera slash ship is Erik (the phantom) and his long-suffering former minder/government official tasked with his execution who helped him escape instead/best friend, the Persian. He has no name and a probably inaccurate title, Daroga, in the original book, but the most popular profic dubbed him Nadir Khan, and searching Erik/Nadir on Ao3 will probably net you lots of ill-adjusted 50ish men pining for each other.

The Temeraire novels by Naomi Novik follow an English naval officer reassigned to the Aerial Corps, that is, the dragon riding air force, during a version of the Napoleonic Wars where both sides (and most every country and culture) lives alongside dragons.

The youngest hobbit character in LOTR is Pippin, who has just come of age in hobbit terms, which means he's 33. The youngest human is Éowyn, who is just a regular person probably in her early 20s -ish. (Different kinds of humans age differently - Aragorn has Elven and Maiar blood so he's pushing 90!)

The oldest are the Maiar characters - Gandalf, Saruman, Sauron - who are literally older than the material world and played a role in creating it.

The later books in the Rift War series gave me the first assurance that adventures happen after you turn 20. So, you know, I liked that.

Most of the Transformers that I have heard of are canonically millions ( British English: milliards ) of years old. But they hardly ever behave like it outside of some comic book continuities.
If you like comic book tie ins, a good many music bands have comic books written about them. IIRC, the rock band Kiss had drops of their blood mixed in the ink vats at Marvel comics for their collector’s edition!

Man, this thread is lacking in anime.
Enjoyable series that come to mind as having at least a few 30+ characters are Gangsta, Showa Genroku Rakugo Shinjuu, Netjuu no Susume, Fune wo Amu, Natsuyuki Rendezvous, Isekai Ojisan, Tiger & Bunny, Samurai Flamenco, Himitsu Top Secret, Honey & Clover, Legend of the Galactic Heroes and Psycho-Pass. Others I heard of but have yet to watch, so not sure if recommended are: Inuyashiki, Seirei no Moribito and Fantasy Bishoujo Juniku Ojisan To.

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