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

Milly Johnston or Lucy Diamond books always cheer me up!

Books: I'm amazed no-one else has mentioned Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City series. There's something so humane about them and they've got the lot: parts are funny, rude, dramatic and soap-like (they started as a serial in a magazine so there are a lot of cliff hangers). Best of all if you like them, there's lots of them to read.

TV: if my life is going wrong I find 'Malcolm in the Middle' puts it into perspective and/or Freaky Friday. I know you're meant to identify with the teenagers but the older I get the more I identify with the mothers (if I actually sound like the mum in Horrid Henry I know it's not a good day).

I also like Jilly Cooper especially Score! and Appassionata, because she's done her research with the opera/music background and although the characters are caricatures, they do bear a passing resemblance to real people in that world.

Brothers and Sisters
Darling Buds of May

Jilly cooper books all the way, so gossipy and warm and always a happy ending.

Poirot or Midsomer Murders. Or maybe a cult film like Blues Brothers.

Friends, Big Bang theory, how I met your mother, Harry Potter, any Lindsey Kelly book!

TV - desperate housewives, Detectorists

Films - Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz

Food - cereals, porridge, cheese on toast

Buffy!

I feel I may be spending the next few evenings eating cheese on toast and watching Buffy (I don’t remember it too much from the first time around)

Films: Pulp Fiction, anything zombie related

TV: Walking Dead, the old Joan Hickson Miss Marple, Allo Allo

Books: Jackie Collins, Jilly Cooper, Elizabeth David cook books.

Brides Maids film, my all time favourite!

TV - West Wing
Films - Peggy Sue got Married and Moonstruck
Book Rivals by Jilly Cooper.

Oh I forgot - the Hamish Macbeth series by MC Beaton. Wonderful escapism, funny, quaint and heartwarming.

Books: anything by Jane Austen, A Town Like Alice, Discworld Series (Terry Pratchett).

TV: Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Everybody Loves Raymond and Frasier re-runs on Channel 4. Seen them all several times over but could still watch them all day.

Tv: Sex and the City, Friends, How It's Made (I've always been interested in factories), any show on the Food Network that isn't a competition-style format.

Films: Sound of Music, 90s/noughties rom-coms, Mrs Doubtfire

Books: Jane Eyre

TV - Darling Buds of May
Jane Eyre (bbc version)

Books - Chronicles of Narnia

Buffy. Always buffy! I have a quote from the show tattooed on my thigh
Watched it from start to finish again after my spinal surgery and it was exactly what I needed

Only fools and horses.

The Comfort Food Cafe book series.

Grey's Anatomy
Desperate Housewives box sex

Tv: Friends, Downton Abbey, North and South (Patrick Swayze)

Films: Harry Potter,

Books: Sophie Kinsella, Jill Mansell, Jilly Cooper

Films

Whip it

While You Were Sleeping

When Harry Met Sally

Sweet Home Alabama

Tv

Greys Anatomy
Gilmore Girls
Parks and Rec

Books

Austen or Bronte

Love Actually and Bridget Jones

Books - shopaholic ties the knot, the accidental life of Jessie Jefferson, Harry potter, beswitched, five children in the western front, ballet shoes, dancing shoes

Tv - in the club, friends, Gavin and stacey, 3rd rock from the sun

Films - bend it like beckham, Notting hill, Harry potter,

I love comfort reading/watching, dh thinks I'm weird for watching the same thing all the time.

Books: Harry Potter, Twilight (I know, I know!!), Gone With the Wind, anything by Victoria Holt, the Anne of Green Gables books

TV: Downton Abbey, Lark Rise to Candleford, Everwood, Pride & Prejudice (Colin Firth version), The Tudors

Movies: Harry Potter, Notting Hill, the Disney animated 'classics', Disney's live action Beauty and the Beast