# Shows with no murder, mayhem or rape **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** tv-shows-scripted\ **Created:** [December 26, 2022, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-with-no-murder-mayhem-or-rape/977128 "2022-12-26T15:36:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2022, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-with-no-murder-mayhem-or-rape/977128/21 "2022-12-26T18:19:03Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > I’ve gone decades simply not watching what ordinary people call “drama” shows. Have zero interest in it. Whether it’s cops, spies, wars, or the less bloody fare of scheming royals or richies I see zero point in wasting time observing fake people behaving fakely according to a made-up script. It is called “storytelling” and it is an activity in every known culture, frequently to convey morals or allegorical lessons but also frequently for entertainment and expression of creativity. Which is not to say that all stories hav to involve “cops, spies, wars, or the less bloody fare of scheming royals or richies,” and in fact many do not. But to decry all of drama and fiction is eschewing one of the unique features of human society. > [@LSLGuy](#): > > Watch baseball. Or the cooking or travel channels. I cannot think of topics more boring and/or manufactured to watch. While I enjoy watching a baseball game live, watching it on television is really just viewing a continuous stream of commercials punctuated by an occasional pitch and swing. Cooking and travel shows are frequently more scripted and affected than actual fiction (excepting Julia Child, of course), and when you combine them together _a la_ the late Tony Bourdain’s CNN show that pretended to present a slice of foreign life and cuisine, you get a soul-destroying fabulation which makes viewers think they understand the culture being presented when it represents nothing other than what a writers’ room and a group of producers thought would get the most eyes on screens. Stranger ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2022, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-with-no-murder-mayhem-or-rape/977128/22 "2022-12-26T18:40:50Z")
**Modding** : This comes across as a threadshit. OP is looking suggestions about TV Shows, not living without. On that same note, lets not hijack this thread into talks about Baseball being boring or not. * * * * * * **ETA** : As brought to my attention, this post was much more appropriate than it appeared in context of the OP’s post, #13. > [@Dinsdale](#): > > (Maybe we ought to just watch LESS TV! ;)) ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2022, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-with-no-murder-mayhem-or-rape/977128/23 "2022-12-26T18:45:20Z")
> [@LVBoPeep](#): > > Detectorists Second this! Amazing show. No murder, no mayhem, no rape. Also second Kim’s Convenience! Try Midnight Diner if you don’t mind subtitles (or you speak Japanese). The Gilded Age, so far as I have watched anyway. Sex Lives of College Girls ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2022, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-with-no-murder-mayhem-or-rape/977128/24 "2022-12-26T19:10:24Z")
Not everything might be to your taste, but here are recommendations from my list. Some of them I haven’t watched in a while so my memory might not be perfect regarding the presence of murder, mayhem, or rape: HBO shows: The Larry Sanders Show (Also Zen Diaries of Garry Shandling) Tenacious D Silicon Valley Hello Ladies Family Tree Garfunkel and Oates Flight of the Conchords Crashing Bored to Death (so far as I recall) Curb Your Enthusiasm On Hulu: Party Down Moone Boy The League This Way Up On Netflix: Derry Girls Gilmore Girls Bridgerton Glow Still Game Crashing (UK) F Is for Family Amazon: Fleabag Not sure where you can find these: Trivia (Irish show) The Thick of It Twenty Twelve W1A Spaced The Inbetweeners Fresh Meat The Book Group Any series based on Jane Austen ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2022, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-with-no-murder-mayhem-or-rape/977128/25 "2022-12-26T19:11:58Z")
> [@Acsenray](#): > > Any series based on Jane Austen …except the one with the zombies. ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2022, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-with-no-murder-mayhem-or-rape/977128/26 "2022-12-26T19:16:39Z")
Silicon Valley is superb, but I must warn you it’s not about good people. It’s more like a Dickensian satire of the worst kind of people in tech business. But the storytelling is IMO brilliant. It felt genuinely suspenseful to me despite being about nothing more than a guy trying to launch a tech startup. Also very raunchy! ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2022, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-with-no-murder-mayhem-or-rape/977128/27 "2022-12-26T19:18:33Z")
Derry Girls is indeed excellent. ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2022, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-with-no-murder-mayhem-or-rape/977128/28 "2022-12-26T19:19:14Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > …except the one with the zombies Very true. Didn’t think of that. > [@Spice\_Weasel](#): > > it’s not about good people. I’ll not guarantee that the shows I recommended are about good people. Also many of them might be raunchy. ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2022, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-with-no-murder-mayhem-or-rape/977128/29 "2022-12-26T19:21:53Z")
Fleabag is another great one along those lines. I just remember I started a thread similar to this one asking for shows that are about good people. I was tired of all the cynical takes. That’s when I was recommended Ted Lasso. I understand that they aren’t mutually exclusive, I just got mixed up. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2022, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-with-no-murder-mayhem-or-rape/977128/30 "2022-12-26T19:44:41Z")
[Open All Hours](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_All_Hours) and [its sequel series](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Still_Open_All_Hours) if you don’t mind a bit of non-violent mayhem. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2022, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-with-no-murder-mayhem-or-rape/977128/31 "2022-12-26T19:48:10Z")
As long as I’ve joined this thread, I’ll second **Corner Gas** , **Derry Girls** and **Ted Lasso.** I’ll add **Corner Gas Animated** also. ---
**Author:** ![Paintcharge](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/paintcharge/32/7946_2.png) [@Paintcharge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paintcharge)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2022, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-with-no-murder-mayhem-or-rape/977128/32 "2022-12-26T19:56:35Z")
It’s a game show, of sorts, but I’ll add “Taskmaster.” ---
**Author:** ![Dinsdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/97f17d/32.png) [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2022, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-with-no-murder-mayhem-or-rape/977128/33 "2022-12-26T20:00:31Z")
Wow - too many recs to respond to individually. Derry Girls - I was willing to give a longer shot, but my wife didn’t care for it. Fleabag - similar, but basically thought a lot of unpleasantness in it. Don’t have HBO, but could see if the library carries any of them. Meaning to try Hulu. I guess I’ll withhold any comments on the modding… ---
**Author:** ![Banksiaman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/banksiaman/32/3334_2.png) [@Banksiaman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Banksiaman)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2022, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-with-no-murder-mayhem-or-rape/977128/34 "2022-12-26T20:01:11Z")
And chuck in Parks and Recreation as a multi season comedy offering. My neighbour, who likes to avoid TV murder, mayhem and rape as much as possible swears by old Perry Mason. ---
**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:** [December 26, 2022, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-with-no-murder-mayhem-or-rape/977128/35 "2022-12-26T20:12:33Z")
I used to love Doc Martin, but the final season is available now, and I find I’m just not interested. It’s the same old tropes, same old jokes, same old characters doing the same old things, I just found myself getting bored. ---
**Author:** ![SmartAleq](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smartaleq/32/163_2.png) [@SmartAleq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmartAleq)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2022, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-with-no-murder-mayhem-or-rape/977128/36 "2022-12-26T20:13:11Z")
For a similar milieu but much cleaner, if you can find _Halt And Catch Fire,_ it’s an amazing show that follows the set of characters through various eras of the computer/internet age as they grow and change and tackle big issues. It’s one of my favorite shows, excellently cast, written and acted. A gem. My personal “feel good” clean and wholesome show is _Heartland,_ available free through PlutoTV. Sixteen seasons so it’s a looooong binge but it’s full of horses and kind people learning and being kind to each other as they grow and change. If you like a rural setting and especially if you’re horsey, this is the one. ---
**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:** [December 26, 2022, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-with-no-murder-mayhem-or-rape/977128/37 "2022-12-26T20:20:19Z")
_Extraordinary Attorney Woo_ does have murder cases, but the real story is about Woo, an autistic woman who has become an attorney. Extremely charming and with some powerful emotional moments. ---
**Author:** ![Tarataratara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Tarataratara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tarataratara)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2022, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-with-no-murder-mayhem-or-rape/977128/38 "2022-12-26T20:37:43Z")
> [@Dinsdale](#): > > > [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > > > All Creatures Great and Small > > Liked the previous one and thought the new one OK - until we cut the cable and lost access to it. I watched the newest version of All Creatures Great and Small on the PBS website. It was free, but the episodes don’t stay up long. A new season begins very soon. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2022, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-with-no-murder-mayhem-or-rape/977128/39 "2022-12-26T20:57:35Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > All Creatures Great and Small If we’re going to mention PBS shows, I enjoyed The Durrells of Corfu. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2022, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-with-no-murder-mayhem-or-rape/977128/40 "2022-12-26T21:22:37Z")
I’d say that show has plenty of mayhem. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-with-no-murder-mayhem-or-rape/977128.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-with-no-murder-mayhem-or-rape/977128.md?page=3)