# Recommend a streaming “whodunit” show to me **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** tv-shows-scripted\ **Created:** [July 13, 2023, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-streaming-whodunit-show-to-me/987006 "2023-07-13T21:47:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2023, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-streaming-whodunit-show-to-me/987006/21 "2023-07-14T22:46:56Z")
Yes, it’s a bit gory at times, but ultimately it follows the genre – middle to upper class suspects and victims, motives involving greed or jealousy, killers who aren’t psychopaths, the detective finding one final clue that solves it all. ---
**Author:** ![mordecaiB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mordecaib/32/7725_2.png) [@mordecaiB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mordecaiB)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2023, 7:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-streaming-whodunit-show-to-me/987006/22 "2023-07-16T07:51:57Z")
> [@Maserschmidt](#): > > This has come up here before, and I’ll say it again, it’s not cozy, and it’s sometimes quite gory. Yes, I agree. It quite simply can’t be a cozy if the crime solver is a professional. Cozy has things like baker, dog walker, book store owner as the crime solver. They run across crime in the pursuit of their profession or hobby. Some really good cozies or light mysteries listed in this thread. I think my wife and I are about done with _Brokenwood_. The last season that switched to 90 minute episodes and the replacement of the original detective with a guy that can’t act kind of sealed the deal. The whole plotline of Mike getting married was so out of left field it seemed jammed in to pad the episodes. ---
**Author:** ![commasense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/commasense/32/3017_2.png) [@commasense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commasense)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2023, 8:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-streaming-whodunit-show-to-me/987006/23 "2023-07-16T08:40:05Z")
> [@mordecaiB](#): > > It quite simply can’t be a cozy if the crime solver is a professional. Are the Poirot stories not cozies? Although I don’t recall them ever dealing much with how he runs his “business,” he is, I believe a professional private detective. ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2023, 10:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-streaming-whodunit-show-to-me/987006/24 "2023-07-16T10:55:59Z")
What if they’re a former detective or cop? Are they still cozy mysteries? I know Hallmark has a few mystery series, but I have some philosophical objections to that channel. ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2023, 11:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-streaming-whodunit-show-to-me/987006/25 "2023-07-16T11:50:47Z")
Here’s a whole thread, before we completely derail this one. > [@What makes a book a "cozy mystery"?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-makes-a-book-a-cozy-mystery/967742): > > A series I was reading kept talking about how it was a cozy mystery, but it really didn’t match my perception of what the genre was about. Before I tell you what I thought a cozy mystery was, I want to hear your opinions. ---
**Author:** ![commasense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/commasense/32/3017_2.png) [@commasense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commasense)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2023, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-streaming-whodunit-show-to-me/987006/26 "2023-07-16T12:32:42Z")
In this [linked thread](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-makes-a-book-a-cozy-mystery/967742/16), @Exapno_Mapcase asserts that in a cozy… > the detective is someone very much a part of the community, knows the people and deals with them regularly, and so can make assumptions about their behavior. I guess this is a valid distinction. I my mind I had lumped Poirot in among the cozies because so many of Christie’s other stories are, and he meets most of the other criteria we’ve listed. Someone will correct me if I’m wrong, but ISTM that with these criteria, the BBC _Father Brown_ with Mark Williams is a cosy, but Chesterton’s originals, for the most part, are not. I have read a good percentage of the short stories, and none that I can recall featured any of the stock characters of the show, and many of the tales were set in various European cities. Does the series draw anything from the originals other than the basic character of Father Brown? ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2023, 12:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-streaming-whodunit-show-to-me/987006/27 "2023-07-16T12:36:54Z")
Monk is lots of fun. Love the show. ---
**Author:** ![FlikTheBlue](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fliktheblue/32/10972_2.png) [@FlikTheBlue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FlikTheBlue)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2023, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-streaming-whodunit-show-to-me/987006/28 "2023-07-16T12:51:30Z")
> [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](#): > > Yeah _Poker Face_ would have been my recommendation but it’s on Peacock. This. In addition Peacock has _Murder She Wrote_ and _Psych_, which both fit the OPs criteria. ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2023, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-streaming-whodunit-show-to-me/987006/29 "2023-07-16T18:14:08Z")
> [@commasense](#): > > I have read a good percentage of the short stories, and none that I can recall featured any of the stock characters of the show, and many of the tales were set in various European cities. Does the series draw anything from the originals other than the basic character of Father Brown? Just the Devereaux (sp?) character – the jewel thief. But he’s _really_ different in the TV series than in the stories. ETA: I just love the Sebastian character on _Shakespeare and Hathaway!_ He’s perfect in the small doses that they use him for, and I’ve gotten a huge kick from all his various undercover activities. Hope they don’t begin to overuse him. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-streaming-whodunit-show-to-me/987006.md?page=1)