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

One Foot in the Grave re-runs.

I think it's the best sitcom ever, plus my Dad used to love it and it reminds me of him (RIP)

Book - Jemima J by Jane Green, read it all through the time my mum was dying, such escapism.

Programme wise, have really got into The Job Lot lately, very gentle and funny.

Books- Jinny and Shantih at Finmory (Childhood favourites)

TV- The Last Kingdom
Vikings
Time Team
Coast

Films- The Lost Boys
Hocus Pocus

TV - Gavin&Stacey, Inbetweeners or 2 pints of lager and a packet of crisps are my go to. I like easy watching.

Film - Love...actually or The Greatest showman

Book - anytjinf

Sent the last one too soon. Book is anything Marian Keyes, but The Mystery of Mercy Close or Rachel's Holiday are my absolute fabourites

The Fair acre books by miss Read.
The Golden Girls.
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TV: Gavin and Stacey, Veronica Mars, Buffy

Films: The Sound of Music, Breakfast at Tiffany’s.

Books: To Kill a Mockingbird, all Marian Keyes - especially anything with the Walsh family.

Shirley Valentine. And I watched a film with Pauline Collins called Mrs Caldecott ‘s Cabbage War - it was great.Little bit cheesy, but still fun.

Circle of Friends by Maeve Binchey.
Anne of Green Gables.

Jane Austen in any media!

Gilmore Girls.

Peanuts and Garfield comic strips.

Desert Island Discs and Great Lives. Life Scientific.

I found Murial’s Wedding really bleak in parts, which prevents it being comfort viewing fodder for me.

@faitheverpresent - To Kill a Mockingbird is probably my favourite ever

The royle family

Tv series: Charmed and The West Wing.

Books: for comfort I reread all the Harry Potters, Jean Plaidy, Georgette Heyer, Agatha Christie and PG Wodehouse. I have other books I love and reread often but these are my go-tos for easy diversion.

Im not really a film person but I find old Westerns very comforting as they remind me of summer holidays at my grandparents when I was little. Also fairly fond of Indiana Jones and Jurassic Park for the same reason.

Brooklyn Nine Nine. Maybe the Big Bang Theory.

Books I'll usually go for childhood ones because they're just more comforting - A Little Princess, Little Lord Faunterloy, Enid Blyton.

Or the Harry Potters!

@loopy I just read my first ever Mauve Binchy a week or so ago - it was pure comfort and sort of inspired this thread! (Was the evening class one)

Books: the Harry Potter Series, anything by Jodi Picoult, the Once and Future King by TH White
Films: Anything Disney, RENT, The Greatest Showman, Matilda, Space Jam
TV: The Vicar of Dibley, The Inbetweeners, Gavin and Stacey, Come Fly With Me, Horrible Histories, Doctor Who, Merlin

Films: Sense and sensibility. TV : BBC pride and prejudice, Louis Theroux

Friends (obviously) just discovered Gilmore girls and love it.

Love those awful Christmas films on movies 24

@Frogface@ How could I have forgotten The Golden Girls?!

When I’m feeling down / ill/ sorry for myself tv: SATC, dinner date, 2 pints of lager and a packet of crisps, Corrie . Or re runs of shows like Supermarket Sweep (rip Dale), as they remind me of having sick days as a kid and snuggling on the sofa with tomato soup.

food: digestives and mild cheddar, Heinz Tommy soup, a big cream cake

Films: dirty dancing, the beach

Music : britpop, wartime (!) and a bit of classical

The Anne books (Green Gables and the rest.
Robin Hobb

Harry Potter (though I prefer the audiobooks now)

TV -
Dad's Army
Old British sitcoms (all the classics)
BBC Pride & Prejudice

Books - David Eddings
Films - Groundhog Day, Ghostbusters
TV - Buffy, Greys Anatomy, Coupling, Friends

I love a good re-watch/read sometimes. Old favourites can be just as good as finding a great new one.

Peep show, I always watch it in bed and laugh as much as I did the first time I watched it!

I can never really read books twice but I have plenty of favourites.

James Herriot books.

The Bodyguard.
Sense and Sensibility (film not book)
A Walk in the Woods (ditto)
Seinfeld

Oooooooh just thought of another one...

Diagnosis Murder. I know it's dross, but it's just so watchable. Especially the random episodes where additional Van Dyke family members get cast, or they randomly get six guest stars who were all in Star Trek / Quincy / some other eighties thing together back in the day.

Also, the episode where Dick Van Dyke played four members of the same family, including a woman (and they basically just put pan stick over his moustache and covered 'her' in a veil).

Ooo film has to be Forrest Gump!