I watched the first series of Anne With an E and it was LESS grimdark than the original, but I stopped watching it during series 2 because I found the plots uninteresting (I assume they had moved away from the books and were making their own storylines up at that point), so is that where it starts getting unpleasant?
I'm currently hoovering up "Under the Skin", a modern Chinese detective series (only 20 episodes long!) starring one of the actors from Winter Begonia (the fellow opera singer who has to shave his head when he loses a bet with Shang Xirui) as a slightly fey police sketch artist. The cases are a bit nonsensical, but this is a feature of most cop shows, and the rest of it is highly entertaining. And even the nonsense is often quite fun (I had to laugh yesterday when they figure out that a diary entry was faked because it says "sunny" and a sketch drawn on the same day shows the wrong kind of light for a sunny day and the pencil strokes are softer and darker than they should have been because of the humidity. And then, after this long and not entirely convincing lecture on the science of drawing, Our Hero adds "and I checked on the internet and it was sunny on that date." You could have said that in the first place, Sherlock!). It doesn't do well by its female characters, so plus ca change there, but otherwise it might meet your current needs.
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I'm currently hoovering up "Under the Skin", a modern Chinese detective series (only 20 episodes long!) starring one of the actors from Winter Begonia (the fellow opera singer who has to shave his head when he loses a bet with Shang Xirui) as a slightly fey police sketch artist. The cases are a bit nonsensical, but this is a feature of most cop shows, and the rest of it is highly entertaining. And even the nonsense is often quite fun (I had to laugh yesterday when they figure out that a diary entry was faked because it says "sunny" and a sketch drawn on the same day shows the wrong kind of light for a sunny day and the pencil strokes are softer and darker than they should have been because of the humidity. And then, after this long and not entirely convincing lecture on the science of drawing, Our Hero adds "and I checked on the internet and it was sunny on that date." You could have said that in the first place, Sherlock!). It doesn't do well by its female characters, so plus ca change there, but otherwise it might meet your current needs.