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

TV shows: Friends, Two and a half men (the ones with Charlie Sheen), Keeping Up Appearances

Films: Forrest Gump, Fun with Dick and Jane

Books... I read a lot but it's usually always zombies

Friends, Clueless, Legally Blonde, anything that doesn’t require much brain power but makes me smile

Pride and Prejudice
Jilly Cooper Riders and Rivals
Any PG Wodehouse
Any Agatha Christie
A Room With A View
A Suitable Boy

Also any old Agatha Christie movies, Sleepless in Seattle, Pretty Woman and of course the BBC Pride and Prejudice.

Film has to be About a Boy.

Books - Pride and Prejudice, Lord of the Rings, any Bill Bryson, any James Herriot

TV - The Great British Bake Off, I've been watching the 7 BBC seasons on a continuous loop on Netflix, I just love it. I'm going to have to get it on DVD or pay to permanently download it when they take it off Netflix.

Also love ER, Gavin and Stacey, Friends, SATC, The IT Crowd, The X Files and The Inbetweeners, but GBBO is my ultimate comfort viewing.

Films - Lord of the Rings trilogy (I pretty much know all the dialogue by heart), Bridget Jones, Love Actually around Christmas time, Shaun of the Dead, any of the Jurassic Parks or Jurassic World.

RuPaul's Drag Race (obvs)

Books: Harry Potter, the Sally Lockhart series, Outlander

Films: Shakespeare in Love, The Parent Trap

Film has to be Sense & Sensibility (the Emma Thompson version).

If I want to be cheered up then probably (and I know this is controversial on MN!) Mrs Browns Boys. If I want something very gentle and calming then Good Witch on Netflix. Books - always Terry Pratchett, one of the witches books.

Yes purple me too. Watched it a couple of weeks ago and I've watched it 4 times since!

It's so... Soothing

Books: Cold Comfort Farm, Tales of the City

Movies: oh Brother Where Art Thou,
Forest Gump, Life of Brian, The Nuns Story.

Food: Pasta Puttenesca, Roast Dinner, bacon butties

TV Royle Family, Friends, father Ted, Blackadder

Drinks, Vina Sol, Merlot

Add: swimming, horses, my cats

Books - Jean M Auel series, Harry Potter and Lee Child.

TV Series - Friends, Big Bang and Greys Anatomy.

Films - The Sweetest Thing, Hunger Games, Harry Potter.

TV: Scrubs! Easy going, funny, switch your brain off

Film: shallow hal- I used to watch it to go to sleep, not because it bored me but it was just so easy going

TV: The Gilmore Girls
Film: Ome Like It Hot
Books: Harry Potter. Particularly 1, 2 and 3

Flaming I second O Brother!

Oh and About Time!

I’ll shut up now....

Oh, Call the Midwife!

Book: Sabriel or any of the Garth Nix old kingdom books.

TV : Gilmore girls, gossip girl, Gavin and Stacey.

Film: Almost Famous

Food: Mashed potato, with anything!

TV show Only Fools and Horses nostalgia for times and pubs
Once upon a Time in America film and The Godfather (all of them)
I have just re read the eleven Poldark novels

Inspector Morse or Lewis, preferably with the rain battering against the window and some good chocolate.

Another vote for the Anne books and BBC Pride and Prejudice.

Books....Harry Potter,Jilly Cooper,Marian Keyes,Jane Eyre.
Films....Harry Potter,Rebecca,Pride n Prejudice,Sense and Sensibility,Bridget Jones.
Friends and E.R.

Oo.Legally Blonde film and A little Princess book.

Music: Kate Bush and David Bowie, brilliant unique singer songwriters

Films : The Lion In Winter, Hepburn and O’Toole, what a film and what a family and Breakfast At Tiffany’s, funny, sad and uplifting

T.V : Cranford, like hot chocolate on a cold day, and The Royle Family, funny and touching, and loads of British detective series, especially Endeavour.

Books: Lillian Beckwith is the author of a series of books. The Hills Is Lonely is the first one of many and they never fail to make me laugh. An english woman rents a croft on in the Hebrides and the very funny culture clash.

Books:
Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman
Behind the Scenes at the Museum by Kate Atkinson

Film: Practical Magic

TV: Buffy