I will also indulge in some 50s, half hour black-and-white western series just to observe the technical aspects. And admire their ability to show violence without really showing it.

...and Ive never watched westerns before.. This time Ive sworn off all news..havent watched msm since the election and im finding so much other stuff to watch. Mostly Brit tv....you can binge Midsomer Murders for months! But anything clossic b/w I will watch!

But other shows are Tacoma FD ( hilarious cuz I live in Wash State)..Friday NIght Dinner ( Brit and Brilliant) A Place to Call Home ( Brit and Beautiful but intense).. The Ranch ( this is my comfort food show..Damn you, Danny)....Only Murders in the Building ( Classic Steve Martin and Meryl Streep and Martin Short are a thing now in real life!)....BONES!!!!! I can NOT get enough of this show.

I TRIED to watch White Lotus but couldnt even get thru the pilot.

Im open to more suggestions!

We donated to Iowa Public Television and can watch all the old and some new series without commercials. Much more relaxing than the standard fare available on regular TV station programing.

I’ve seen most episodes multiple times and it’s still my comfort show.

You validate me!

I find serial killers and anything with autopsies strangely comforting during these times.

I like them too.....

Dick van dyke ... bewitched ... Andy Griffith... simpler times good writing

'Northern Exposure' when it was popular.... just started watching an episode every night to catch up

It's unnerving thinking about all the ways that you can be tracked and recorded. Big brother is watching! LOL.

My husband and I rewatch the whole thing every spring.

Some of it was nostalgia; we watched the mysteries together when we first started dating (thirty years ago! )

The rest was just pure escape. It's weird when murder mysteries offer a pleasant relief from the shitstorm of modern life.

For free!

Cinematic Titanic, The Film Crew, and Rifftrax.

It was a great show, and we owned all of their DVDs. I wish they had continued with it.

I think it may have been at the State Theatre downtown, Detroit. Fun show!

However, there is also something to be said for watching a series in real time. I'm a big Star Trek fan, and while too young to have seen the original series "live," I watched each series after as it premiered, with the exception of DS9. A show set on a space station did not appeal to me. Thirty-plus years on I only recently started watching it. And, while I'm enjoying it, it isn't the same as being with these characters for years on end, recapping episodes with friends the next day, and anticipating the next season while waiting through a long summer.

In other words, it doesn't seem to resonate with me as much. It's like microwaving a burrito and earing it at the sink versus preparing and sitting down for a multi-course meal. Either way you get fed, which is the point, but it seems like some enjoyment is lost in the process. My .02.

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Yea, I too am a Star Trek fan....watch it thru Paramont Plus....especially Enterprise.... I also watch the D-Con- Chamber on YouTube....

https://www.youtube.com/@thedconchamber

This has podcast show with Dominic Keating and Conner Trinier...many Star Trek guest...

I got my drivers license. Looked forward to it every week. We thought it was brilliant. Many things on that show have actually come true.

Gilmore Girls, Raising Hope, Corner Gas, Detroiters, and Brooklyn Nine-Nine.

It departed much too soon.

Prefer shows that tell pretty good stories but keep it light with a sense of humor too.

So help me Todd, Elsbeth, NCIS Hawaii, High Potential, Whiskey Cavalier, Limitless, and Wild Cards..

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They trigger our time loop thoughts back to when life was more " safe" and trusting... these shows aired from the 70's thru 2000....like music triggers back to a time we experience a life of predictability...we think of when we first heard the song, people we were with and mostly fond memories...

This helps us stay grounded thru the dystopian regime....

The Walking Dead....it shows me we can survive this tRump/puttin toxic waste environment.......The Walking Dead characters, they show us many varieties of dysfunction responses to the doom....if we stick together and fight with some sense of morality and respect...we survive.

they showed so many scammers getting caught and going to prison. Now they are all in the white house and the republican party.

Rob McIlhenney of Sunny in Philadelphia
It’s the the office of a video game. Very well written and very funny.

Just The Pitt, Reacher, Matlock, High Potential, Will Trent, Twilight Zone, Nikita, Slow Horses, and about a dozen more.

Good guy/Bad guy. Western justice.

The original series accomplished the impossible and made the far-fetched concept of a zombie apocalypse REAL. It was immersive and engaging and terrifying. The early seasons drove the plot forward and were very bingeable.

After a few seasons the show trailed off as it settled into a big bad/monster of the week formula. The lack of plot progression was palpable, and I don't believe binging them would be very satisfying. I think this downturn began with the prison thread in Season 3. I did watch all 11 seasons as they came out.

When I finished that, I watched "Grey's Anatomy". Now I'm re-watching all of "St. Elsewhere".

too, as i can, if it sounds interesting.