Ha-ha! I always thought it would be pretty dangerous to be around Jessica Fletcher, statistically speaking, but if you were Jessica Fletcher herself, you are right; she always comes out safe. I like your observations about how content she is.

Yeah, I was trying to think of a show where people were content and life was happy and mostly peaceful. I thought of "Little House," too, but remembering the hardships in the books made me steer clear of choosing that one. Rereading most of the books as an adult a couple years ago, I was impressed with how perilous things were for the Ingalls family on occasion. (E.g., the entire family so incapacitated by ague/malaria in their isolated prairie home that none of them could get to the water to care for each other; how they were so close to succumbing to the elements in the Long Winter; having the land stripped to nothing by grasshoppers and nothing to live off of, if Pa hadn't sojourned far away and found work; how vulnerable they were in Indian country, having moved in while still, by treaty, there was to be no white man there.)

I like what you say about the important things in life, though, coming out in Mrs. Wilder's books. Even when I have gone back to see certain episodes of the television show, for all its shortcomings, I am impressed by the overall appreciation of family and friends above worldly wants and worries.

Edit: Improved bad sentence structure. :-/