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Favorite mystery or detective fandoms

[philstar22]

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

Re: Favorite mystery or detective fandoms

[(Anonymous)]

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.

Re: Favorite mystery or detective fandoms

[(Anonymous)]

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

Re: Favorite mystery or detective fandoms

[greghousesgf]

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

Re: Favorite mystery or detective fandoms

[(Anonymous)]

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.

Re: Favorite mystery or detective fandoms

[(Anonymous)]

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.

Re: Favorite mystery or detective fandoms

[(Anonymous)]

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