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: TWD
Any cookery shows
Any nature shows.
Any historical shows
Frasier
The Big Bang Theory
NCSI
Buffy

Films: Alien series
Love Actually (I know, I know but its like a big Xmassy hug an I dont give 2 what anyone else thinks )
The Best Marigold Hotel
Harry Potter
Sense & Sensibility

Books: Anything by Stephen King or Dean Koonz

Music: Fleetwood Mac
Bon Jovi
The Proclaimers
Metallica

Books: The All Souls Trilogy by Deborah Harkness, Echoes by Maeve Binchy (which Maeve Binchy did you read OP?)

TV: Greys Anatomy or Smash

Movies: About Time, The Family Stone

Ooh forgot about food.....Red box of kraft cheesy pasta :)

Or....white toast with real butter and fake cheese slices and a bowl of heinz tomato soup!

Books...Lillian Beckwith's Hebridean books, MC Beaton's Hamish McBeath or Agatha Raisin books, September by Roseamunde Pilcher

TV...One Foot In The Grave, Darling Buds of May, Upstairs Downstairs (the original), Call the Midwife.

Films...Stardust, Local Hero, Restless Natives, '80's films.

Food...mash and gravy, macaroni cheese, fish and chips, a bowl of chicken curry, a fresh scone with rhubarb and ginger jam.

TV - cookery programmes. Also any decent rom coms on Netflix etc.

Books - Just started re-reading Georgette Heyer historical novels. I re-read Diary of a Nobody every few years. Generally anything 'light'.

Churrolicious Yay for Diagnosis Murder! Used to watch it every afternoon when I was caring for my son who was off school with M.E. He indignantly denied watching it with me. The unashamed (and unexplained) appearance of members of the Van Dyke family added to the fun, as did the enormously long lunch hours Dr Mark Sloane (DVD) and his fellow doctors took to investigate crimes, occasionally taking other jobs undercover.

Books:

Jilly Cooper - ‘Rivals’ or ‘Riders’
Alexander McCall Smith - 44 Scotland Street
Graeme Simsian - The Rosie Project
Jane Austen - Sense & Sensibility

TV:

• Pride and Prejudice (BBC version)
• Pawn Stars I bloody love it!
• Anything with Tom Kerridge in it - I have no idea but I find watching him so comforting. I loved that one he did recently with the artisan food producers.

Oh yes and I love a murder mystery! Murder she wrote, Midsomer murders, Lewis. Don’t love the murder, just the beautiful scenery! And murder she wrote reminds me of my mum, so that’s why I love it.

Films that send me straight back to being a teen and always make me feel good are:
The Craft
The Crow
Empire Records
Heathers

For us 80s kids from Scotland...Local Hero and Gregory's Girl. Class, pure class.

Grey's Anatomy, Merlin, Dr Who, Gavin and Stacey, The Middle, Bones

Airplane!

T.V.
House (swoon.)
M.A.S.H.
Morse.
Books
Diana Gabaldon
Patricia Cornwall
Terry Pratchett
Film
Ghost.

Pride and Prejudice
Specifically- the Lady Catherine de Bourgh scene in the "prettyish little wilderness" - "Will the shades of Pemberley be thus polluted!?"
Ahhh I feel better just thinking about it.

Tv - Gilmore Girls, BBC pride and prejudice
Books- Harry Potter, Northern Lights, Poirot

Nat Geo air crash disaster- I take a perverse pleasure in knowing that experts pick apart crashes in such detail that it makes me feel better about flying and life in general

Morse, Taggart or any good detective programme for tv. For film, I love space horror so the Alien films. Comfort food - things with melted cheese, crisps or fried rice dishes.

Oh I forgot Harry Potter! Books and movies.

Also, I’ve just started reading the Outlander series and, so far, I love it. Anything which is a total escape for me is great, so I do enjoy historical fiction and fantasy novels.

Music - dance anthems from the nineties and noughties.

Sir Terry The King Pratchett every time

Friends, Miss Marple, Poirot

Love Actually

Anything by Marian Keyes, Any Harry Potter

Heinz Mushroom Soup

TV: old Dr Who & Star Trek, original Cosmos with Carl Sagan, Sapphire and Steel
Movies: dodgy old Hammer films, Carry On films, old James Bond movies, Terminator
Books: Repairman Jack series, Bill Bryson, Mary Beard
Music: Rainbow, David Bowie, Serge Gainsbourg, Kate Bush, Hazel O’Connor

happypoobum

Can I ask which is / are your favourite Marian Keyes book / s please? I’ve tried two of hers after I’ve heard them raved about and I couldn’t stand them. One went to charity after the first chapter or so and the other after a few chapters. I then read reviews (too late) on amazon and everyone said “not as good as her usual”! So I’m clearly choosing the wrong ones.

The Other Side of the Story is my favourite. I also really like This Charming Man.

I really didn't like her last book - The Break.

The older stuff is the best.

Thanks! I’ll try those. The ones I tried were The Brightest Star in the Sky and The Woman Who Stole My Life.

Books: Katie Fforde, Cathy Woodman or (to my shame) Mills and Boon

TV: Gilmore Girls, Greys Anatomy, Gossip Girl or The West Wing