Literary Inspired TV Shows (
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Predominantly found in web series, TV shows with this trope are based on a pre-existing work. Like every single bloody Sherlock Holmes series ever made by network TV.

R.J. Decker

Ex-con photographer RJ Decker becomes a PI in South Florida, solving strange cases with help from his journalist ex, her cop wife, and an enigmatic woman from his past who may help or destroy him.

Ragdoll

Detectives look to untangle the case of someone who has killed six people and sewn their bodies into the shape of one grotesque body nicknamed the Ragdoll.

Raising Dion

A widowed single mom discovers that her son has super powers and tries to figure out how to raise him safely and responsibly.

Ramen Daisuki Koizumi San

Koizumi, a cool, beautiful university student of few words, is in fact a ramen expert who seeks and tries out delicious ramen with gusto every day.

Ratched

In 1947, Mildred Ratched begins working as a nurse at a leading psychiatric hospital. But beneath her stylish exterior lurks a dark ulterior motive.

Rational Creatures

A modern, queer, telling of Persuasion.

Recipes for Love and Murder

Tannie Maria sees food as “medicine for the body and heart”. She envies romance as much as she enjoys cooking and eating. But it’s death that shakes up Tannie Maria’s life, when one of the correspondents to her column is brutally murdered.

Red Garden

Kate, Claire, Rose, and Rachel once explored the streets of New York with the promise of limitless futures unfolding before them. But now, murdered and resurrected as killers, they must hunt demonic beasts no ordinary weapon can destroy.

Redo of Healer

“Healing magicians cannot fight alone” – or can they?

Resident Alien

A crash-landed alien takes on the identity of a small-town Colorado doctor and slowly begins to wrestle with the moral dilemma of his secret mission on Earth.

Reverse 4 You ดาวบริวาร

One sister foretells the future, and the other controls time. When a promised love seems doomed to tragedy, the pair sets out to change fate itself.

Revolutionary Girl Utena

Sometimes finding your prince means finding you are your own prince.