Sexy Crimes & Chaos: TV to Keep The Brat Out of Trouble
By: The Lace Ledger Staff
This watchlist is full of cautionary tales that she refuses to take as warnings. She’ll watch with a grin, a stiff cocktail and the certainty that trouble looks better in heels.
For The Brat, trouble is a love language — and nothing keeps her entertained like crime laced with seduction, glamour and just enough chaos to feel like a dare.
These shows aren’t about tidy mysteries or moral lessons; they’re about the thrill of bad decisions, messy power plays, characters who bite back harder than they’re bitten. Each title is a reminder that sometimes the best way to behave is to burn it down — at least vicariously.
Photo Credit: TNT via The Hollywood Reporter
Sun-drenched California crime family where loyalty means heists and family dinners come with murder for dessert. For The Brat, it’s permission to flirt with danger.
Shameless
Photo Credit: Showtime via Variety
The Gallaghers live like rules were made to be broken — booze, bad decisions and lust tangled in South Side Chicago grit. The Brat relates: chaos as survival, trouble as an art form.
Jett
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Carla Gugino as a sultry, razor-sharp thief who never apologizes for wanting it all. The Brat sees herself in every smirk, every high-risk move, every smoulder in leather.
The Deuce
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Porn, nightlife and organized crime in 1970s New York. It’s hot, dirty and dangerous — which The Brat’s big three.
The Penguin
Photo Credit: HBO (Cristin Milioti)
Colin Farrell’s Gotham crime saga through the eyes of Sophia Copalla: villain origin story, stylish violence, the allure of the underworld. The Brat sees crime not as punishment, but as play.
Welcome to Chippendales
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Greased torsos, jealousy, empire-building and murder — all wrapped in neon lights. The Brat watches for “research,” but really, it’s more about the abs and scandals.
Magic City
Photo Credit: Prime Video
Miami in the 1950s: mobsters, showgirls and power plays beneath glittering chandeliers. Luxe and lethal, a Brat-approved cocktail to enjoy poolside.
Gypsy
Photo Credit: Netflix via Vanity Fair
Naomi Watts as a therapist seducing her patients’ partners. Recklessly manipulative not to mention taboo — practically a Brat’s diary entry turned Netflix script.
Aquarius
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David Duchovny hunts Manson while California cool and counterculture spiral into crime. The Brat loves it for the edge: every kiss feels like a dare.
These are the series you binge with smudged eyeliner, pizza boxes on the floor and a glass of something with a kick — guilty pleasures elevated into Brat-coded gospel.
Which of these messy masterpieces would you burn through first — the neon nights of Magic City, the scheming clans of Animal Kingdom or the unhinged double lives of Gypsy?
Tell us your pick in the comments, and share your favorite “sexy crime” show to keep fellow Brats out of trouble.
