Let's Go Someplace Gorgeous This Weekend

Signora Volpe, Madame Blanc, Miranda Blake, and Molly Sutton are living incredible (wholly fictional) lives far from home

Hello Gorgeous!

While America seems obsessed with true crime podcasts, I prefer to find more gentle virtual escapes. Fortunately for all of us, there is a sweeping movement toward TV shows and books featuring heroines of a certain age who are far from perfect moving to beautiful places (and frequently solving mysteries). They fall in love not just with the landscape, but with the unexpected hunky or dorky men they meet there.

If you miss Miss Fisher and Agatha Raisin, you should check out one of these this weekend.

Medieval Italy for a former spy: Signora Volpe

Signora Volpe just returned for its second season and it’s worth watching season one to catch up.

Sylvia Fox (Emilia Fox) is a former spy who went to Panicale, Italy for her niece’s wedding and true to escapist TV - she stayed there. There’s a charming if caddish ex-husband (himself a spy), a droll sister married to an Italian doctor, and the extremely swoon-worthy Giovanni Cirfiera playing Capitano Riva.