Please recommend me films or a TV series

[TheSilkWorm]

My dad is staying with me for the rest of this week. We lost my mum recently and he needs company. We watched that detective series with David Mitchell and young woman and the sea both of which he loved. Please recommend me similar? Shortish TV series that we can watch over a few nights, or some good films. Criteria are not too violent, no sex or nudity, good uplifting stories or alternatively clever and twisty.

thank you!

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I know, I thought the same. And the bit at the end where they said they died within a few months of each other 😢

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I hope your dad has time for all these suggestions!