25 comfort shows to binge and get your mind off coronavirus and through quarantine

[Yavin4]

I recommend "The Good Place". It's a great show. I also recommend “Lodge 49”, “Terriers”, and “Justified”

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[underpants]

1. Good Omens. Avenue 5 (not safe for kids). Mythic Quest

[Squinch]

6. Good Omens was SO GREAT!!

[Tumbulu]

27. It is! I might just watch it all again!

[cilla4progress]

2. Heartland -

Canadia!

[DonaldsRump]

3. We're digging Green Acres at home!

Especially since Prime removed I Love Lucy.

[femmedem]

4. Mr. Femmedem and I just binged GLOW.

He was skeptical at first--kept saying he wasn't interested in wrestlers, lady or otherwise--but he was completely won over by about the third episode.

For those of you who aren't familiar with it, it's about a group of down-on-their-luck women hired by a former cult movie director to be the cast of Glamorous Ladies of Wrestling, in the mid-80s. Funny, character-driven, sweet, well-acted.

Edited to add: and yes to The Good Place.

[Lulu KC]

5. Detectorists

I've never recommended it to anyone who hasn't thanked me.

[Laffy Kat]

16. I loved it.

It's such a sweet and endearing show.

[The Blue Flower]

26. Loved Detectorists

Funny and sweet.

[Walleye]

32. That's a good one

[Squinch]

7. Bookmarking.

[BusyBeingBest]

8. We're running thru Parks and Rec again. King of the Hill, too.

The Office, as always. King of Queens on TV Land. Finished Malcolm in the Middle on Hulu not too long ago, wish we had parceled it out to make it last longer.

[Lars39]

9. I just finished Leverage,

and am currently watching Endeavor.

[yellowdogintexas]

11. Leverage is one of our favorites!!

We have binged it twice

Currently watching "The Hunters" and "Locke and Key"

[Lars39]

14. Those look good, too!

[MerryBlooms]

10. "What We Do in the Shadows"

Both series and movie.

[Squinch]

31. "We're not swear wolves!"

[MerryBlooms]

33. !

Out of this world!

[lastlib]

12. What?!? "The Andromeda Strain" isn't listed??!? What IS this??

[Collimator]

36. I want to know why NO ONE

has mentioned the former Fox TV show, The Last Man on Earth. It was on shortly after the election, and one episode shows a character watching the news from a secure bunker. The news reported funerals of President Trump, President Pence and even President De Vos.

[Upthevibe]

13. I second that on The Good Place! I love this show...

I also recommend Schitt's Creek. The first five seasons are on Netflix and it's in it's last season now (about to end in April) on a station I'm not familiar with (It's a Canadian show). If you're a Christopher Guest fan or a fan of really quirky comedy - this is top notch!

[cwydro]

15. I just started watching Happy Valley on Netflix.

Maybe not a “comfort” show exactly, but it’s hooked me already.

[Squinch]

29. Isn't it great? After that watch Grantchester to see the villain in an completely different role.

[lindysalsagal]

17. Netflix: Bodyguard. Seriously, incredible and only 6 episodes, so, doable.

You will forget all about social distancing. Richard Madden won a golden globe for it: Largest BBC audience in England, EVER!!!

[Yavin4]

20. Great show. Didn't realize that it was Rob Stark until half way through. n/t

[lindysalsagal]

21. That's Richard: Fierce actor: He always becomes the character, completely.

Plus, he was so young as Rob.

Catch him in Elton John's Rocketman. Incredible.

[nuxvomica]

22. Absolutely riveting

The last episode was more compelling than the best episodes of 24's entire run.

[lindysalsagal]

23. Every single moment of that series could actually happen, today, no exaggeration.

Incredible work. So realistic. I had to watch it through a few times to really appreciate and understand it all. Incredible, and they want you to do the thinking to keep up. You just don't know what's really going on!

[lindysalsagal]

18. Netflix: "The Last Kingdom." Vikings, pre-england, awesome, 3 seasons, rated R

[LAS14]

19. Silicon Valley

If you have any experience in the tech environment this is so great!!! I'm, unfortunately, half way through the last season. I'm not sure how it might appeal to anyone without tech involvement. Any comments?

tia
las

[nuxvomica]

24. See Netflix' "Occupied" if you want a wildly diverting political thriller

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It's scary smart about current world politics and boasts some wonderfully engaging characters, especially the Russian ambassador. The premise: a green party wins control of Norway's parliament and the PM announces a breakthrough project for a thorium reactor and that he will shut down the country's oil and gas wells. All this to combat climate change. The EU responds by allying with Russia to occupy those wells and all hell breaks loose. Over three seasons you follow a diverse group of characters and will find yourself conflicted at times about whose side you are on. It's in Norwegian with English subtitles but often, as when the Norwegians speak with the Russians, English is spoken.

[jmbar2]

35. I second your recommendation

Very well done, hooks you immediately.

[Kashkakat v.2.0]

25. Schitt's Creek - I cant remember the last time I saw a sitcom that was as LOL funny as

this one. Maybe some of the earlier seasons of Seinfeld. But then American sitcoms took a nosedive after that, became more cringe-inducing than funny .

[Rorey]

28. Yes! Schitt's Creek!

I was just going to mention it. I hadn't had time to watch any more than bits and pieces of Season 5, so that's what's happening tonight.

And for anyone who hasn't done themselves the favor of watching it, the episodes are short. so you don't need to commit a lot of time to it all at once.

I'm looking forward to Season 3 of Ozark on March 27. Maybe after Season 5 of Schitt's Creek, I'll re-watch Season 2 of Ozark.

[The Genealogist]

30. This may sound dorky or stupid, but...

does anyone else think it would be a neat thing to find old episodes of shows that aired the same night and reconstruct what was broadcast and watch them just as they aired? You'd be too busy trying to research and track down the shows and watch them to think about COVID-19 for a while.

[NBachers]

34. I enjoy Maverick and Rockford; there's a Roy Rodgers station on Amazon that's great.

[csziggy]

37. I've been watching Last Tango in Halifax

Great fun, terrific cast. Although I am only on season 2, I'm looking forward to the next season. One of the places we stayed while in the UK was being used to film an episode the day we left!

[Duncan Grant]

38. Currently bingeing "This Is Us". (Hulu)

Superior binge. No commercials. Beautiful storyline. Excellent writing. And Sterling K. Brown.

[Leith]

39. For those of us without Roku, Netflix, Prime, or anything

YouTube has some shows worth watching.

Jeeves and Wooster with Stephen Fry & Hugh Laurie is delightful.

Sherlock Holmes with Jeremy Brett

Yeah, I like British TV shows.

[Lulu KC]

40. We started Lodge 49 last night

It's too early to say, but I have a familiar settling-in feeling that means it might be a favorite. So far, nothing has come close to Detectorists, but I'm keeping hope alive.
Thanks for recommendations!