A historical fiction TV series where no one gets killed, r*ped, tortured etc. and everyone has a normal amount of good and bad times
Posted by Mocha4040@reddit | CrazyIdeas | View on Reddit | 102 comments
Could be any setting whatsoever, Ancient Egypt, Rome, China, a medieval castle, whatever. No drama, just vibes.
BrainyCaveman@reddit
The Andy Griffith Show. Historical. Fiction. Crimes mostly misdemeanor ranging to public drunkenness and moonshining with an occasional rare bank robbery, but none of the crimes you proscribed. Bad times good times spectrum of society. Ticks all the boxes.
lofgren777@reddit
Downton Abbey.
Accomplished_Store77@reddit
Isn't that just ant of the Jane Austen adaptations?
OctopusAssimilation@reddit
Felt this way after watching outlander.
970@reddit
I like movies where they make a plan, everyone works together, they execute and are pleased with the results. We don't get many of those.
Dry-Egg8573@reddit
I love it when a plan comes together
MattAttackiMG@reddit
The Count of Monte Cristo (2002) is one of my all time favorites and fits OP's and yours descriptions
j0siahs74@reddit
You should watch the old Star Trek shows
mutexsprinkles@reddit
Someone once described the Picard Enterprise as a "process centric" organisation and I can't get that out of my head.
mutexsprinkles@reddit
Money Heist could have been that if the Professor had been a better judge of character and didn't choose psychos for his team.
ChaoticSquirrel@reddit
Consider watching Project Hail Mary and then watching the recaps of the Artemis II livestreams if you haven't already!
braqass@reddit
The movie Chef is a great example of this. I kept waiting for the tragic turn and it just never came. Just a feel good movie throughout
SeriousJack@reddit
Why I love The Martian. Just people who are good at their job working together towards a common goal.
Leucurus@reddit
Competence porn
bionicjoey@reddit
The classic rule of filmmaking is that there's no point in telling the same story twice. So if you are told how the plan will work, then it will definitely go wrong. And if they fade to black or otherwise don't explain the plan, then it will succeed.
Single-Pin-369@reddit
Closest I got for you is King Arthur Legend of the Sword. Doesn’t even try to be believable but it’s just a movie that is way more fun that you would expect and it features this premise.
Nervous-Opening9107@reddit
Should watch the "Oceans" movies. Right up your alley.
Mocha4040@reddit (OP)
That also counts as a crazy idea.
rdblakely@reddit
boring
s_mcivor@reddit
Roped? Riped? Reped?
What the FUCK are you asking for?
Menadgerie@reddit
You’ll love All Things Great and Small. It’s about James Herriot, a rural veterinarian in 1930’s-40’s England.
Mr_Cigarette@reddit
Yeah my SO and I were talking about how we like this one because the stakes are always so low. Like one episode the most stressful thing was they lost a cat.
strawberry_wang@reddit
That's extremely stressful, trigger warning please!
Mr_Cigarette@reddit
They found the cat and it was fine!
Quirky_kind@reddit
I haven't watched the new version, but the original series is a delight. It is wholesome and heartwarming without being sappy or sentimental. No one in it is horrible and a lot of the characters are really good people.
TheGrandExquisitor@reddit
Yes, but there are many intense scenes where he literally sticks his fist inside a patient. That show is hardcore.
FrancisGalloway@reddit
The coziest show I've ever seen. Very mundane, pleasant story.
HurricaneAlpha@reddit
Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman and Little House on the Prairie, too.
At least from what I remember.
Liraeyn@reddit
Someone got SA on Little House
Pinglenook@reddit
Someone getting sexually abused at some point in a 204 episode TV series is in line with a normal amount of bad things happening though.
Disaster-Bee@reddit
And on Dr. Quinn.
Mocha4040@reddit (OP)
Will check it.
remzordinaire@reddit
The Gilded Age.
The most intense conflict was opera seats...
beamerpook@reddit
That's just called real life. I read fiction for the murder and rape, monsters, and demons. If I want to see an average dude filing his taxes, I'll just go watch my husband...
Separate_Wave1318@reddit
Use some imagination. It could be good sitcom material or mild wholesome comedy.
beamerpook@reddit
I literally just made a comment about how I can't read "green flags couples" where the couple are loving and mutually caring. I apparently need at least one red flag, or preferably black flags 🤣
Mild and wholesome is just not my thing I guess
Separate_Wave1318@reddit
Idk, i actually don't even read any "couples" actually... But the golden girls in medieval setting would be equally amazing.
beamerpook@reddit
I have a feeling Sophia would be burned as a witch
ashleyshaefferr@reddit
Sure but this is precisely what turns many people of from this stuff.
I have a hard time taking things serious once it jumps to campy make-believe stuff
beamerpook@reddit
Might just have to find something that suits you. If you can't find something you want to read, write it! That's what one of my favorite authors, Joe Abercrombie, said why he started writing. And holy shit, I can see why he has a hard time finding what he wants to read 🤣
I've been reading some translated Chinese works, and mild and wholesome they are not. I've actually fallen out of love with western media and culture. Everything just seems like a mix and match of super powers, coming of age, and hair color, where even catastrophic events is kinda mid.
But if you enjoy it, you're hardly in the minority.
Appropriate-Set-5297@reddit
Uhhh this is a Wendy’s……. In Ohio!!!!!!! You sir have won the Internet for today. Fellow Redditors, let’s make sure to leave plenty of updoots for this fine man!
Any_Kaleidoscope8717@reddit
How I met your Aztec Empire mother
Aboriginal Friends
Community (but it's ancient Greece so they're always in togas (the Deans outfits are streets ahead))
svartkonst@reddit
Community is my favorite show of all time, I feel like it momded my psyche
Anubis-Hound@reddit
But how will the directors be able to vicariously live out their blatant rape fetishes then???
Scrangdorber@reddit
...Fetlife?
FormalMango@reddit
“It’s historical realism!”
“So why do all the women being brutally raped have shaved legs and armpits?”
“Oh well, we don’t want it to be that realistic.”
Otto_Pussner@reddit
I’ve tried to have this exact conversation about GoT and people get like really upset with me for pointing things out.
zoppaTheDim@reddit
What the point of streaming if you don’t toss in naked people?
Mocha4040@reddit (OP)
You are right, I was not very considerate.
OlyScott@reddit
A drama with no drama--well, we have made "comedies" with no comedy...
Scrangdorber@reddit
The Big Bang Theory?
keshaseviltwin@reddit
Where did they say they want it to be a drama? Sounds like they want a historical slice of life or sitcom
reindeermoon@reddit
I don't think OP means there shouldn't be any drama, just that they could make a show without all the violence. There are plenty of dramatic TV shows where nobody gets raped and murdered.
OlyScott@reddit
Look at the last sentence of the OP.
buttchug429@reddit
Gogs
angryscientistjunior@reddit
Thank you. This, please! Realism!
Vivid_Huckleberry814@reddit
Do we at least get to see Cleopatra's knockers?
DLQuilts@reddit
That’s what I liked about the movie Boyhood
DanielMcLaury@reddit
Um, did you finish the movie?
Disaster-Bee@reddit
You might enjoy a genre known as anachronistic sitcoms! Typical sitcom style plots, but set in historic periods. Some examples are Black Adder, Plebs, Upstart Crow, Another Period (though this one is more anti-sitcom, like It's Always Sunny but set in the Gilded Age), Galavant (though that is also a musical), Dickenson....
I particularly enjoy Upstart Crow, even if it gets a bit silly. It reimagines the life of Shakespeare as a family sitcom. Done by the same team as Black Adder.
Hefty_Direction5189@reddit
For a while now I’ve been convinced they could make a killer sitcom starring Ea Nasir, and the hilarious and historical hijinks he gets up to trying to make a quick buck off poor quality copper.
mutexsprinkles@reddit
A Mesopotamian version of Only Fools and Horses.
Ea Nasir Independent Trading Co.
Disaster-Bee@reddit
In that case, if you haven't seen Plebs yet, give it a try. No Ea Nasir specifically but that is exactly the sort of silly, historically inspired plots they have.
Plus whoever was on pronunciation did their job, they even pronounce Tutankhamen the traditional way.
Hefty_Direction5189@reddit
Thanks for the recommendation! I just love Ea Nasir as a historical figure, famous for being the first sleazy salesman, what a legacy. That first complaint tablet is a work of art.
WanderingKing@reddit
I assume you mean adult shows? Because I don’t think Dora has that lol
ChaoticSquirrel@reddit
I just watched The Englishman Who Went up a Hill but Came down a Mountain and it thoroughly meets your criteria. Great watch!
Nukethepandas@reddit
Little House on the Prarie
Godisdeadbutimnot@reddit
I love this crazy idea. Shows like Outlander are just unwatchable because literally every single fucking character is raped at some point.
beigs@reddit
Pride and prejudice - the 1995 BBC version.
Rdub@reddit
The thing is, it wouldn't be "Historical" without all that awful stuff. Life in those days, unless you were born into power, wealth and privilege (ie., nobility of some kind), was pretty fucking brutal and unfair for the common people, and theft, assault, rape and murder were an all too constant part of most people's lives. In pretty much any of the places / eras you listed, if you were a commoner, any person of "Noble" birth could pretty much come along at any point and take whatever you have, rape your wife or daughters, and even kill you or your family, and suffer precisely zero consequences for it as that was literally their right at the time.
What I think you're actually after is some kind of "Alternate history" type deal where the uncomfortable truths about humanities past are sanitized for the sake of modern sensibilities. Fortunately most so called "Historical" fiction is in fact "Alternative history" and has been for decades, as even just the sheer amount of casual racism and sexism would make anything truly historically accurate unwatchable for most folks. Most of what passes for "Historical dramas" these days is just modern sensibilities and characters grafted onto historical settings.
Case in point, literally nothing you've ever seen about Vikings has been in the least bit historically accurate, as the Vikings were doing so very much more raping than modern people would care to admit let alone watch. Viking raids were as much about raping and taking slaves as they ever were about plundering gold or other treasures, but no one really wants to watch a show that's just violence, then sexual violence, then more regular violence repeated ad nauseam.
To that end you might enjoy "The Completely Made-Up Adventures of Dick Turpin" featuring Noel Fielding. It's a silly, feel good medieval adventure romp that I at least thought was pretty good.
Worldly_Might_3183@reddit
Little house on the prairie
FiddleRiddle5@reddit
‘Anne with an E’ from the CBC
reyseven@reddit
Fulfilling your request means watching Krapopolis, which I do not recommend.
indiaelle@reddit
Are you talking about…Bridgerton? lol jk jk
Unfortunately, history is savage.
lovely_DK@reddit
Some manga/anime are like that. A Bride's Story that takes place in 19th century Central Asia was fairly tame.
a_neobum@reddit
How has nobody mentioned Plebs? Okay, so there is some death and the odd hint at the other stuff, but it's a lighthearted, feel-good comedy show set in ancient Rome.
EverettGT@reddit
Getting killed, graped or tortured was pretty normal in history, lol. It seems pretty clear in the traces of our evolutionary instinct and behaviors that civilized behavior evolved on top of a world where that was a common form of interaction.
recycleddesign@reddit
You mean Northern exposure, that show is all vibe, the most dramatic thing that happens is there’s a moose kind of near the house.
JakeDuck1@reddit
Like The Wonder Years but hundreds of years ago
recycleddesign@reddit
Neither me or my dad said anything at the time but inside we both knew that the other knew that that gourd full of juniper berries had saved more than just our goats..
crazymcfattypants@reddit
Downton Abbey.
Riccma02@reddit
You want to watch Cranford (2007); a group of elderly women living in a 19th century English country village, confront changing social tides and the coming of the railway.
https://youtu.be/uRyK8j8Dss0?si=WUC1WSd0nnqmp-ab
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Lemfan46@reddit
Roped?
bionicjoey@reddit
I'm pretty sure everyone (except for a few rich people) getting murdered and tortured is actually "a normal amount of good and bad times" for most of history
Middle-Power3607@reddit
A knights tale
ThisIsAdamB@reddit
The Flintstones.
MadlibVillainy@reddit
Problem is , sadly , a normal amount of good and bad time will very often include at least rape, especially in ancient times. And if you don't believe me , ask the women around you how many have been sexually assaulted at least once , then multiply the answer by two because a lot of them won't tell you or internalized it and don't consider it was that bad.
So if you want a slice of life media without this , you'd have to omit it intentionally and that feels a bit dishonest if you want to depict normal life in say medieval times.
akebonobambusa@reddit
On Golden Pond.
sylverbound@reddit
Downtown Abbey (there is eventually a bit of war in the background and a death or two, no spoilers, but it's not gratuitous)
IdontcryfordeadCEOs@reddit
Someone gets raped in Downtown Abbey
sylverbound@reddit
Oh true. I guess the point is that it's not on screen or in your face, more about the people around all that.
ThrowawayBreak48@reddit
The vibes of US history with no slavery 🥳
Casiquire@reddit
Yes, please, thank you! And we've seen enough birth scenes too.
Rays-R-Us@reddit
sounds boring, is there at least smoking?
LordMoose99@reddit
Tbf most people want the median that they consume to be something other than what they experience in the day to day (as thats what your life is like), and violent media makes for more interesting but safe ways to get this.
Look up slice of life shows (or Hallmark) for the "nothing bad happens " media
lit-grit@reddit
Little House on the Prairie?
Amazing_Loquat280@reddit
Honestly bridgerton fits the bill I think
HP844182@reddit
I don't know if there's a movie/tv equivalent for for literature this falls under the "cozy" category
Mundane-Caregiver169@reddit
I agree that things should not be shown. I don’t mind if they are implied because these things do happen. I prefer the method of early cinema even for consensual encounters: cut away, or pan to something else.
SonicLoverDS@reddit
Sounds boring.