Aibu to ask for your “comfort” books, tv shows, etc

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Just that really. What do you turn to when you maybe need cheering up, or a book or television show you turn to again and again.

This is a bit inspired by realising that I re-read the same books and watch the same tv shows again and again and dh just doesn’t get it as he will read or watch something once, whereas I find it quite nice to just have a familiar story to just delve into with no thought required

Friends! (TV show).

Or gentle cookery shows like Classic Mary Berry

Books:
It used to be Anne McCaffrey. These days it's more likely to be Jodi Taylor.

TV:
Gilmore Girls, Friends.

Brooklyn Nine Nine! Always makes me smile no matter how many times I’ve seen the episode.

The Moonstone (the book) and Muriel's Wedding. Like being invisibly hugged :)

Gilmore girls, desperate housewives, friends

Harry Potter series, Northern Lights series

I'm going through a low patch so I'm going to dig out my Jilly Cooper books and revisit those old friends ☺
Films, any Richard Curtis type films help me escape.

@sneaky - Friends is one of mine - and cookery shows too (and Come Dine With me - while not strictly cooking it’s like something I can just relax in front of)

Oh I nearly started this thread yesterday!

Perky Blinders got me through losing Mum
Gavin and Stacey and The Trip...whenever there’s nothing else
Still Alice - simply beautiful film

Bookswise...the childhood/ teenage books I hunted down recently

Film: when harry met Sally - my go to I feel shite film

Books: American Gods or Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman

Films: Muriel's Wedding or Priscilla

Music: Baroque or 90s indie

Food: cheese & biscuits or a Holland's steak & kidney pudding

TV: real life medical shows

Rosemary and Thyme
Roger and Val have just got in
Jam and Jerusalem

Books: The house in Norham Gardens
The Girls of Slender Means

Marian Keyes - Rachel's Holiday, Jane Green - Mr Maybe or David Nichols - One Day

Films - always Pitch Perfect. Love it.

TV - it's gotta be SATC, even though it hasn't aged well

Gavin and Stacey is one of the ones I watch on repeat. I just find it so uplifting

Books: Dorothy Sayers, especially Busman’s Honeymoon and Gaudy Night; Anne of Green Gables; Terry Pratchett books
Films: Labyrinth, Clueless, Legally Blonde, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Dirty Dancing
TV: Red Dwarf, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, the X Files

Tv - Him and Her, Friends, Detectorists, Gavin and Stacey, The Royle Family

Film - about time, mean girls (ha!)

Book - Ballet Shoes

Books: The Secret History, any Lionel Shriver, Madame Bovary

TV: Homes under the Hammer

Monarch of the Glen. Wallpaper of a TV show. Like a hot chocolate in a mug with a cuddle.

At times it gets sad, but everything turns out alright in the end. And when you cry they're weirdly cathartic tears.

I'm not sure I'm selling it well..!

@hooli - Rachel’s holiday is my go to when I’m feeling unwell. I must have read it twenty times.

Books: Virginia Andrews, utter tripe
Films: Death Becomes Her, The Crow, Heat, Bourne trilogy.
TV: X-Files (i could watch alllll day). Revently binge-watched Parcs and Rec, i migjt binge-watch them again!
Food: Pringles, homemade Baileys ice cream.

Any murder mystery on the tele - but not Murder She Wrote or any other American stuff. Poirot, Miss Marple, Midsomer Murders, Death in Paradise, Inspector Morse.

I watch hollyoaks even though I am now in my late 30s 😁 no-one irl gets this at all. I am fairly into classic literature, read “serious” stuff and generally shun all but the highest quality hbo telly shows. However I just love hollyoaks. It makes me happy. I think following a soap is great for your mental health because there’s always a sense of “I wonder what will happen next!”

Books - where do I start? The most comforting thing I’ve ever read is The Lost Art of Keeping Secrets by Eva Rice. I always return to Persuasion by Jane Austen and also The Diary of a Provincial Lady. Dh jokes that he knows I’m going through a rough patch if he finds the latter next to my bed!

Love Actually is obviously bobbins but I watch it every Xmas, along with Its A Wonderful Life. I Capture the Castle is lovely too. But my go to is Far from the Madding Crowd (the original with Julie Christie, although the recent one was cute too).

Buffy. Reminds me to keep fighting the monsters in my life

Book - the thornbirds and the horse whisperer :)

Film - leap year and Notting Hill :)

Books:

Harry Potter
Anne of Green Gables
I Capture the Castle

Films:

Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistlestop Cafe
Howl's Moving Castle
Dead Poet's Society
Moonrise Kingdom
The Grand Budapest Hotel

TV:

The Great British Bake Off
Anything the Hairy Bikers do
Parks and Recreation
Stranger Things

TV - Midsomer Murders
Book - Coming Home, Chalet School
Audiobook- Coming Home or Agatha Raisin (being read to is very comforting)
Film - don't really have the concentration for a whole one.