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Ways to Escape Reality: Television Shows Edition
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items Technically these are all what I would call fantasy, since the rules in Hollywood have been written for entertainment purposes rather than factual purposes.
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Strong Female Leads
Vampires, Witches, Werewolves, & More!
Miscellaneous shows
Shows that I don't have a category to put in
A comedy that follows three Chicago EMTs who despite their narcissistic and self-destructive personalities are uniquely qualified to save lives.
Sirens Season 1
A hard-living aunt is forced to take care of her wealthy sister's spoiled kids after the mom flees the country to avoid criminal charges.
The Mick (TV Series 2017–2018)
A sketch comedy show involving five friends. Still funny to this day!
Streaming on Prime Video, Tubi, The CW
The Whitest Kids U'Know (TV Series 2007–2011)
Colter Shaw travels the country in his old-school RV, helping police and private citizens solve crimes and locate missing persons--until his latest case changes everything.
Tracker (TV Series 2024
A disgraced, dissatisfied civil lawyer-turned-beauty pageant coach takes on a vengeful, bullied teenager as his client and has no idea what he's about to unleash upon the world.
Insatiable (TV Series 2018–2019)
Thirty-something Irish Catholic couple Sean and Claudia deal with their three children as well as Sean's judgmental father and weasel brother.
Grounded for Life (TV Series 2001–2005)
A group of teenagers experience the ups and downs of love and friendship in a world of social networks, sex, drugs, and violence.
Watch Euphoria
When a novice sleuth convinces the police he has psychic powers, he and his reluctant best friend are hired on as consultants to help solve complicated cases.
Psych (TV Series 2006–2014)
The story behind Detective James Gordon's rise to prominence in Gotham City in the years before Batman's arrival.
Watch Gotham
A former philosophy professor who takes a job teaching advanced placement biology uses his students to get back at the people in his life who have wronged him.
A.P. Bio (TV Series 2018–2021)
Siblings working as detectives in a small town navigate quirky locals, limited resources, their strained relationship, and their father, who's the police chief, in this comedic crime procedural.
Good Cop/Bad Cop (TV Series 2025– )
Strong Female Leads
I want to be friends with the leads
At first I wasn't sure about this series, but soon I was dying at the shenanigans that these two very different characters get into.
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Astute but unconventional attorney Elsbeth Tascioni utilizes her singular point of view to make unique observations and corner brilliant criminals alongside the NYPD.
Elsbeth (TV Series 2024
Teresa flees Mexico after her drug-runner boyfriend is murdered. Settling in Dallas she looks to become the country's reigning drug smuggler and to avenge her lover's murder.
Queen of the South (TV Series 2016–2021)
Jane Doe is found in Times Square with no memory and mysterious tattoos on her body.
Blindspot (TV Series 2015–2020)
Series adapted from the award-winning play about a young woman trying to cope with life in London whilst coming to terms with a recent tragedy.
Fleabag (TV Series 2016–2019)
The personal exploits of a 16-year-old girl and her family and friends during the Troubles in the early 1990s in Northern Ireland.
Watch Derry Girls | Netflix Official Site
Vampires, Witches, Werewolves, & More!
Anything to do with magic, creatures, powers, etc
When a succubus finds it difficult to adapt with her unusual traits inspite of being born in a human family, she sets off on a journey to find out the truth of her origin. This is my favorite show.
Lost Girl on The CW
A preteen girl travels around the country continually stumbling over supernatural occurrences. Since nobody believes her, she posts her finds on her website, "So Weird."
So Weird (TV Series 1999–2001)
An average high school student and his best friend get caught up in some trouble causing him to receive a werewolf bite. As a result they find themselves in the middle of all sorts of dramas in Beacon Hills.
Teen Wolf (TV Series 2011–2017)
Two brothers follow their father's footsteps as hunters, fighting evil supernatural beings of many kinds, including monsters, demons, and gods that roam the earth.
Supernatural (TV Series 2005–2020)
A teenage girl is brutally murdered in the small Pennsylvania town of Hemlock Grove, where secrets lie and the darkest evils hide in plain sight.
Hemlock Grove (TV Series 2013–2015)
A young couple, Sam and Jay, inherit a haunted mansion and, unaware of their invisible housemates, plan to turn it into a B&B. Their lives become much more complicated after a fall causes Sam to see the ghosts. Based on the UK series.
Ghosts on CBS
In 1962, a couple with their son move to Derry, Maine just as a young boy disappears. With their arrival, very bad things begin to happen in the town. This show is gory! I wasn't expecting it to be this graphic, but I love it!
IT: Welcome to Derry (TV Series 2025– ) - Episode list
Many in the coastal town of Haven, Maine have a dormant curse or "trouble" that could trigger at any time for any reason. FBI agent Audrey Parker, the sheriff and the town's black sheep must deal with the troubles' deadly effects.
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Elena Michaels, the only female werewolf in existence, is desperate to escape the paranormal world.
Bitten (TV Series 2014–2016)
Georgia Lass is surprised to discover that an afterlife does exist, and that she's already been assigned a job. Her new boss is Rube, a "reaper" -- one of the many who pluck the souls of the living and escort them to their eternal reward.
Dead Like Me (TV Series 2003–2004)
A medical resident finds that being a zombie has its perks, which she uses to assist the police.
iZombie | TV
Follows Wednesday Addams' years as a student, when she attempts to master her emerging psychic ability, thwart a killing spree, and solve the mystery that embroiled her parents.
Wednesday (TV Series 2022
Young Nancy Drew makes plans to leave her hometown for college after high school graduation, but finds herself drawn into a supernatural murder mystery.
Nancy Drew (TV Series 2019–2023)
Battling demons and other creatures with her unique abilities and a posse of dysfunctional allies, Wyatt Earp's great great-granddaughter Wynonna is the only thing that can bring the paranormal to justice.
Wynonna Earp (TV Series 2016–2021)
After being recruited to a secretive academy, a group of students discovers that the magic they read about as children is very real--and more dangerous than they ever imagined.
The Magicians (TV Series 2015–2020)
Vanessa Helsing, distant relative of famous vampire hunter Abraham Van Helsing, is resurrected only to find that vampires have taken over the world.
Van Helsing (TV Series 2016–2021)
As her 16th birthday nears, Sabrina Spellman must reconcile her dual nature as a half-witch, half-mortal while fighting the evil forces that threaten her, her family, and the daylight world humans inhabit.
Watch Chilling Adventures of Sabrina | Netflix Official Site