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

Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt - funny, inspiring and Titus steals the show. The theme tune showing awesome little girls and the words "females are strong as hell" always makes me feel proud.

TV: Doc Martin just easy to watch and amusing

Book: Adrian Mole so easy to read and bitter sweet and have read Watermelon a few times

Film: When Harry Met Sally or Some Like It Hot

Angela's Ashes is something I re-read sometimes, I love the humour and the language. Stephen King and Dean Koontz are my go-to for fun, and Ken Folletts Pillars Of The Earth and World Without End are two others I re-read.

tv wise, Father Ted, other old comedies like that, Bottom etc...

God yes Angela's Ashes is great, I've read it at least five times.

Lots of recommendations on here, I'll never leave the house again!

TV - Buffy, Gilmore Girls, Alias, Veronica Mars, period dramas
Books - Harry Potter, Agatha Christie, Jane Austen, Evelyn Waugh, Tom’s Midnight Garden
Films - Kind Hearts and Coronets, A Little Princess, Sense & Sensibility, Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day

Books, too many to name but Anne if Green Gables and little women.

Tv, Golden girls is on a loop here, I love them so much. MASH, Bob's burgers, Brooklyn 99pi, Anne of Green Gables, Southland, True Blood, Will and Grace and superstore.

I go through phases with things. I used to find the West Wing like a great big cuddly duvet but now I just think Trump and it's too depressing.

But I love listening to Alan Bennet reading his autobiographical stuff, about his parents and so on. Quite often it's about depression and dementia and so on but I find it centring. This is life.

Books- Harry Potter
Tv - gilmore girls, friends
Films- Bridget Jones

TV - Friends (of course), GBBO, Time Team, Digging Up Britain, a bit of Jezza but sssshhhhhhh

Films - The Railway Children, Cheaper by the Dozen 2, The Proposal, anything Richard Curtis

Books - Rivals, things by Joanna Trollope, Just William books, The Bullerby Children, Malory Towers, St Clare’s .... so many!

How could I have forgotten to add Still Game to my list!

No matter what else might be going on in my life, a bit of Jack and Victor always takes my mind of it

Another vote for Friends.

DP and I are rewatching them all and I am really enjoying it.

We just watch one or two episodes when we have time and it really makes me laugh and relaxes me after a long day.

Friends hasn’t aged well at all IMO: the homophobia is particularly jarring.

But some excellent comedy too.

Books:
Georgette Heyer
The All Souls Trilogy
Dorothy Sayers
Margery Allingham
Diana Galbaldon
Delia Smith
Nigella Lawson
Nigel Slater
Diana Henry

TV:
NCIS preferably with Gibbs, but the LA and New Orleans spin offs are good too.
The original Brideshead Revisited
Food Network, especially the Barefoot Contessa and The Pioneer Woman

Films:
Star Wars
The French Lieutenants Woman
Harry Potter
Truly, Madly, Deeply
Hunt for Red October
Top Gun

Music:
Mozart
Handel
Vivaldi
Queen
Dire Straits
Abba

Gilmore girls - in 5/6 seasons literally nothing ever happens. Completely stress free mindless viewing.
Grey's anatomy - every episode makes me cry so helps me get it out of my system.
The office (American version) and parks and recreation are both brilliant.
Gavin and Stacey.

Tv shows: The US Office, Parks & Recreation or Community

Books: Matt Haig - The Humans

Music: Hall & Oates - You Make My Dreams Come True

What a wonderful thread.

Books - anything by Robin Hobb and Tad Williams.

Movies - Practical Magic, Overboard, Shrek, Beauty and the Beast (live and animated).

TV - feature length detectives, so Morse, Lewis, Endeavour, etc, those on the lighter side of grim, if you know what I mean. Vicar of Dibley, Two Pints of Lager for comedy, and documentaries about wildlife, particularly anything with David Attenborough.

@monkeymamma I like Love Actually too. If you watch the opening bit, it has real people footage of reunions at airports, where they are actually pleased to see each other and talks about how the final phone calls people made when they knew they were going to die were predominantly messages of love.... Gets me every time. That is where the title came from apparently 'Love actually is all around'. Ignore if you know this already.

And I like Big Bang and Frasier. For books Maeve Binchy, Mary Wesley. Food: Not quite as fussy, just carby

Should read, die in 911.

Films: Scum, Schindler's List, anything where people are in situation that is worse than mine.

TV: Crap/Classic comedy, the sort of things they rerun on Gold.

It always makes me smile to see how many 'Anne' fans there still are - I really hope people are passing the love on to their kids :)

@monkeymamma

I love The Lost Art of Keeping Secrets, I don't know anyone else in rl who has read it.

Ah I love Annie, added it to my Netflix list the other day.
Random but Little shop of horrors. I'm a sucker for a musical and it has such great songs.

Harry Potter books and films.
Sherlock TV series.
GBBO reruns!

@ClandestineAdulation
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Always makes me smile no matter how many times I’ve seen it"

Title of my sex tape.