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.

Rome & Juliet

Girl meets Girl, and it all goes downhill from there. Like it does.

Rosario + Vampire

A boy inadvertently enrolls in a boarding school for monsters.

Runaways

TV Show
2017 - 2020
Hulu

Six teenagers from different backgrounds unite against a common enemy — their criminal parents.

Sabagebu!

Taking place at Aogiri Academy, the series follows a group of female high school students and their daily lives in a survival game club.

Sacred Lies

TV Show
2018 - 2020
Facebook, Peacock

A teenager with no hands is suspected of knowing who killed her cult’s leader and lands in juvenile detention.

Sailor Moon

TV Show
1992 - 1997
TV Asahi

Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon SuperS. If you didn’t understand that, it’s okay.

Saki

A girl who hates mahjong joins the school team.

Saki (Anime)

TV Show
2009 - 2014
TV Tokyo

A girl who hates mahjong ends up joining the club.

Sakura Trick

TV Show
2014
BS-TBS, CBC (Chubu-Nippon Broadcasting), MBS, TBS (Japan)

A secret love in high school? What could go wrong!

Salón de té La Moderna

TV Show
2023 - 2025
La 1 de TVE

Set in 1930 in Madrid, the series follows young Matilde, who enters to work at the tearoom “La Moderna” in Puerta del Sol.

School Spirit: An Unlikely Webseries

An LGBT webseries adaptation of Noel Coward’s Blithe Spirit.

Scott Pilgrim Takes Off

A 20-something Toronto indie rocker’s adventures in getting and keeping jobs, avoiding being kicked out of his apartment, and surviving encounters with the seven evil exes of the new girl in town on whom he has a crush.