Star Trek: Voyager. I was raised on that shit. Not objectively the "best" Star Trek. (Far from the worst, though.) But it's the one that's most nostalgic and, indeed, "cozy" for me.
The first time I watched Voyager, I went into it only knowing that more folks liked TNG and DS9 (at the time I had only ever seen random eps of TNG, TOS, and a few of the TOS movies). So while I went on a random deep watch of all of Trek at the time (Discovery was either about to come out, or had started). I was very happy to find out that Voyager was much better than I expected. Also didn't take as long to get good (TNG was very weird the first few seasons which I found out quickly).
After watching all the stuff before Discovery, it felt so different and kind of makes it and the other new shows seem strange. Not always bad, just so much modern effects that take attention away from the actors. So far I am in season 3 of Discovery, season 2 of Picard, and only one episode of SNW. Still looking forward to them, just need to be in a "time for Trek" headspace to power through them like I did for everything before.
I personally find Enterprise to be the most weirdly cozy of the pre-Discovery shows (not near being the best taken as a whole like TNG/DS9/Voy). Has a nice mix of the "feel" of the 90s shows, but with some of the "modern" effects for me. Sure they went ham on stuff like "we need some kind of 'directive' for handling first contact", and they killed the show as it was really getting its flow. Really curious what even just one more season could have done as that last ep really felt like a quick end and was so jarring on the characters.
Still pissed that Paramount said they will not do a touch-up remaster for DS9 and Voy like they did for TOS/TNG (and the 1080p remaster for ENT). They say it is because the amount of time and money that TNG alone required, and the sales of the TOS/TNG Blu-rays weren't high enough. Which sucks since DS9 and Voy are so badly needing something (even a more simple upscale of the non-sfx stuff since the effects would need full re-doing), and the fans of those are really dedicated.
For me, it’s delicious in dungeon. I’m vegetarian and generally very weirded out by the cultish behaviours people have around meat, so a show about people killing and eating monsters should definitely not be as enjoyable to me as it is, but here we are. Very fun and cute show tho so I’m not complaining
Yeah that show is oddly comforting. I love cooking and I found it a bit cringe as it's set up like a videogame, but OTOH I got a girlfriend through regularly watching it with her and cuddling sleepily on the sofa, so I can't complain 😅
I am very curious what "cultish behaviors" you've observed surrounding meat. Not discrediting your experience at all, just a curiosity! I'm sure you've had to explain it many times before, so please feel free to ignore my request. 🙂 Just someone looking to broaden their horizons and understand.
Probably the most relatable one around here is the way people on reddit used to talk about bacon - in like 2010s reddit it was almost mythologized, which was weird to me even back then when I still ate and enjoyed bacon. There’s a bunch of other small examples like that I’ve run into pretty regularly that are each innocent on their own but taken all together are just… odd. “Cultish” was probably too strong of a word but I couldn’t think of a better alternative (then or now) for the way some people treat meat so differently than any other type of food, including ones you might expect to be more exciting like deserts or something.
I’m not one to try to tell people their opinions on subjective stuff are wrong and that’s not what I’m trying to say here, but I just do really think there’s more to the way some people treat meat than just it being a type of food they enjoy. Hopefully that makes some kind of sense lol
I honestly think the bacon thing was an advertising push; one that gained its own momentum. If I remember something interesting, it's that the original bacon advertising campaign over a hundred years ago was one of the most successful advertising campaigns in its long term effects on the 'culture' of american breakfast. Then there was another push with it to become a 'premium' addon in culinary circles in the 90s-00s.
There is definitely something odd about meat in people's minds, though, you're right. I've never heard of anyone, even italian chefs, caring about whether a pasta must be cooked al dente to be done right, but every idiot and their cousin will tell you they know exactly how a steak must be cooked, and everyone else is wrong, and not only wrong but a terrible savage for thinking differently.
I was born in the late 80s, grew up in the 90s and 2000s, and it's both fascinating and terrifying to me how much of what I thought was just "standard" stuff was influenced by marketing 50-100 years before I was even born. Santa Clause as a jolly old man with rosy cheeks and a snow white beard wasn't a big thing until Coca-Cola made it part of their advertising in the 30s. The bacon with breakfast thing was the result of a food packaging company in the 1920s hiring a man named Edward Bernays to help them sell more bacon. Bernays was allegedly so good at marketing/manipulation that people like Hitler and Goebbels kept copies of his books. Orange juice became a thing because orange producers in Florida in the early 1900s made too many oranges for the market (in an attempt to beat out California as the country's orange production state), and juicing them was considered a better alternative to reducing production.
I try not to think about it too much if it's something that isn't something that I need to interact with, like orange juice or bacon, both of which I avoid, because, yeah, it is terrifying. Advertisements are real life attempts to shape the behavior of the world.
Listerine was a cleaning product until they decided to boost sales by positioning it as a mouthwash.
First, they had to convince everyone that they needed mouthwash, so they invented HALITOSIS (bad breath), and then offered Listerine as the solution.
Lysol tried a similar pivot, except they tried to market their cleaning product as post-sex birth control douche. Listerine's pivot caught on, Lysol's didn't.
Halitosis was already the medical term for bad breath, with evidence of its use in England. All that word did was give an American businessman/marketer a polite euphemism to talk about something that was considered taboo at the time (body odors were associated with poor hygiene and lower status people). It does seem like they pushed hard with marketing to make it into a more widespread "problem" though.
No, I meant that they created a demand by marketing up Halitosis like it's a major problem.
That's nothing new, they still do it constantly. Those women's deodorant commercials make women feel like they are carrying a cloud of funk around with them wherever they go, and they have to smear this deodorant over every inch of their bodies or they'll offend every nasal passage in the county.
Before you can offer a solution, you need to make them feel like they have a terrible problem that needs to be fixed immediately, at any cost. Even if you have to make it up.
Lol, I picked the name because of its effect on my life. I had a family member who would only eat their bacon if it was nearly burned, and so I have very strong memories of the horrible nature of bacon as a kid.
Ohh, I see. That weird thing where people make one really specific, otherwise small thing an absurdly huge part of their personality.
I've seen it with tea, coffee, chocolate, meat (specifically bacon and steak), and a million other things food-related and otherwise. I follow what you're talking about now, and yeah it's weird. I enjoy meat quite a lot, and I do have some kinds of meat I do like cooked a (general) particular way. I'm not going to go around preaching to God and everyone about it, though, and I wouldn't consider "meat' a part of my personality, lol. When people take one small, specific thing and make it their entire personalities it does get... Strange.
Which star trek is the best intro to someone young but totally new to the show/series itself? The original w/Shatner? I only know him from Family Guys various gag and cursing Kahn from Fiddler on the Roof
Probably a toss up between The Next Generation (TNG) and Deep Space 9 (DS9). Do note that Star Trek series normally need about a season to find their footing. Season 1 of TNG was mid-tier but it still is a source of plenty of memes.
I think TNG is likely the better starting point. The original series (TOS) is painfully old fashioned, which could ve a good thing or bad depending on your tastes.
My friend is super into star trek and convinced me to watch some with him. I'd say go look up a 'top 5' of the OG star trek, watch those, then do what the others have suggested.
Whenever I'm sick I will always just put on The Venture Bros. while I recover. The show spanned so many years, makes me feel better watching the show evolve and remembering what point in my life I was in when various episodes aired.
Burn Notice. I dont know what it is but it's like watching a version of "How It's Made" from a fictional universe. All of the voiceovers about spycraft are bullshit but my brain just buys it for whatever reason.
Also, can't belive I forgot this, but "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia".
Same here. There's just something about the gang that helps me see the good. They're objectively terrible people but at the end of the day they always stick together.
Bluey is fantastic. My partner is from australia, and every time we are waiting in a pediatrician's waiting room, we love it when it's on the telly. He says he could start a side business smuggling bluey items from oz to here.
my ex loved that show. i thought it was funny but meh.
turns out she had major lying/alcohol/money issues. go figure. and i was too stupid to realize it until we were about to move in together. her love of the show was her love of her fucked up treatment of me.
There's even more episodes that are as good as that one IMO. The show doesn't have many bad episodes. Just a handful -- maybe -- of less interesting ones.
I'm doing a Dexter rewatch over the holidays. Apparently there are a bunch of sequels/prequels now and I wanna refresh my memory before diving into those shows.;
From, horror show From, it's so nice to binge watch it. It's not like true horror but it is like mix of horror, mistery and fantasy and it is so funny to binge watch it and think about all sorts of theorise as to why that place even exist.
Feel free to not answer but do you think Law and Orde SVU appeals more to women audience? As a guy i never particularly liked SVU altho i liked Olivia Benson. Very human cop
It's possible, especially since SVU typically had independent female ADAs and mainline L&O's Jack McCoy could occasionally be abrasive or dismissive towards his female assistant ADAs.
But on the other hand, mainline has Jesse L. Martin and his pretty, soulful eyes.
If I had to pick just one it would be Red Dwarf. I watched it so many times I can't even count it.
There are also some series that aired at the time I was returning from school I'd happily watch if they were on right now. Even though I'm not that interested to search for them though. Shows like Renegade, Walker Texas Ranger, Baywatch or whatever that Star Trek with captain Picard was. This is hugely influenced by time and place as our eastern block country just opened to western shows and movies and everything looked so flashy and bombastic. And everything was flashy and bombastic compared to bland and gray local production at the time.
Loved that show. From memory it started getting weird in later seasons but then wrapped up in a semi-satisfying way? Might have to.... starts looking for the box set
Yes, it was soft rebooted for S6-7 because of a major event at the end of S5. About half the cast turned over, though they return for appearances. Ending was pretty satisfying, didn't feel too forced. The DVD box set is pretty nice, though I don't have a lot of those to compare against
NCIS. We started watching the franchise with NCIS: Hawaiʻi, mostly because I support the film industry back home and love the scenery. From there, we watched the crossover episodes of the other shows, started but didn’t quite finish NCIS: New Orleans, then started the original show from the beginning until getting caught up last year. Now I throw on past episodes as background.
What’s funny is I assumed the spin-offs had to be crazier than the original because they must have had to escalate the storylines over time. Completely missed that call. That first season of NCIS is insane.
The Andy Griffith Show, but I don't know about the adjective "weirdly." The show is supposed to be cozy and comfortable, and it succeeds better than any other show I know. Hilarious, too. Barney Fife is the funniest character in the history of TV. I even named my Lemmy handle after him.
Perhaps a better choice would be one of my favorite Star Trek series - Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, or Voyager. I record them on TIVO, so I have a huge bank to choose from. I often watch an episode as the last thing before going to bed.
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TootSweet@lemmy.world · 26 pts · 255d
Star Trek: Voyager. I was raised on that shit. Not objectively the "best" Star Trek. (Far from the worst, though.) But it's the one that's most nostalgic and, indeed, "cozy" for me.
its_kim_love@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 5 pts · 255d
Mine is Deep Space 9! I should rewatch voyager. I watched it as a kid on TV but I don't remember much.
kieron115@startrek.website · 4 pts · 254d
Voyager has that "found family" vibe that most of the shows don't really.
tleb@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 255d
Currently rewatching for the 5th or 6th time... Right there with ya
dRLY@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 253d
The first time I watched Voyager, I went into it only knowing that more folks liked TNG and DS9 (at the time I had only ever seen random eps of TNG, TOS, and a few of the TOS movies). So while I went on a random deep watch of all of Trek at the time (Discovery was either about to come out, or had started). I was very happy to find out that Voyager was much better than I expected. Also didn't take as long to get good (TNG was very weird the first few seasons which I found out quickly).
After watching all the stuff before Discovery, it felt so different and kind of makes it and the other new shows seem strange. Not always bad, just so much modern effects that take attention away from the actors. So far I am in season 3 of Discovery, season 2 of Picard, and only one episode of SNW. Still looking forward to them, just need to be in a "time for Trek" headspace to power through them like I did for everything before.
I personally find Enterprise to be the most weirdly cozy of the pre-Discovery shows (not near being the best taken as a whole like TNG/DS9/Voy). Has a nice mix of the "feel" of the 90s shows, but with some of the "modern" effects for me. Sure they went ham on stuff like "we need some kind of 'directive' for handling first contact", and they killed the show as it was really getting its flow. Really curious what even just one more season could have done as that last ep really felt like a quick end and was so jarring on the characters.
Still pissed that Paramount said they will not do a touch-up remaster for DS9 and Voy like they did for TOS/TNG (and the 1080p remaster for ENT). They say it is because the amount of time and money that TNG alone required, and the sales of the TOS/TNG Blu-rays weren't high enough. Which sucks since DS9 and Voy are so badly needing something (even a more simple upscale of the non-sfx stuff since the effects would need full re-doing), and the fans of those are really dedicated.
artifex@piefed.social · 20 pts · 255d
I will watch a Joy of Painting episode anytime I come across one on PBS (they stream on YouTube but it’s more fun to find it “in the wild”)
burntbacon@discuss.tchncs.de · 3 pts · 254d
They had it on the tv when I went to lunch a few weeks ago. Watching it was way better than any of the sports on the other walls.
bobzer@lemmy.zip · 19 pts · 255d
Black Books.
kieron115@startrek.website · 5 pts · 254d
Sorry, I need leatherbound pounds to go with my wallet. Next!
felsiq@piefed.zip · 19 pts · 254d
For me, it’s delicious in dungeon. I’m vegetarian and generally very weirded out by the cultish behaviours people have around meat, so a show about people killing and eating monsters should definitely not be as enjoyable to me as it is, but here we are. Very fun and cute show tho so I’m not complaining
helix@feddit.org · 9 pts · 254d
Yeah that show is oddly comforting. I love cooking and I found it a bit cringe as it's set up like a videogame, but OTOH I got a girlfriend through regularly watching it with her and cuddling sleepily on the sofa, so I can't complain 😅
cujo@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 254d
I am very curious what "cultish behaviors" you've observed surrounding meat. Not discrediting your experience at all, just a curiosity! I'm sure you've had to explain it many times before, so please feel free to ignore my request. 🙂 Just someone looking to broaden their horizons and understand.
felsiq@piefed.zip · 8 pts · 254d
Probably the most relatable one around here is the way people on reddit used to talk about bacon - in like 2010s reddit it was almost mythologized, which was weird to me even back then when I still ate and enjoyed bacon. There’s a bunch of other small examples like that I’ve run into pretty regularly that are each innocent on their own but taken all together are just… odd. “Cultish” was probably too strong of a word but I couldn’t think of a better alternative (then or now) for the way some people treat meat so differently than any other type of food, including ones you might expect to be more exciting like deserts or something.
I’m not one to try to tell people their opinions on subjective stuff are wrong and that’s not what I’m trying to say here, but I just do really think there’s more to the way some people treat meat than just it being a type of food they enjoy. Hopefully that makes some kind of sense lol
burntbacon@discuss.tchncs.de · 8 pts · 254d
I honestly think the bacon thing was an advertising push; one that gained its own momentum. If I remember something interesting, it's that the original bacon advertising campaign over a hundred years ago was one of the most successful advertising campaigns in its long term effects on the 'culture' of american breakfast. Then there was another push with it to become a 'premium' addon in culinary circles in the 90s-00s.
There is definitely something odd about meat in people's minds, though, you're right. I've never heard of anyone, even italian chefs, caring about whether a pasta must be cooked al dente to be done right, but every idiot and their cousin will tell you they know exactly how a steak must be cooked, and everyone else is wrong, and not only wrong but a terrible savage for thinking differently.
kieron115@startrek.website · 4 pts · 253d
I was born in the late 80s, grew up in the 90s and 2000s, and it's both fascinating and terrifying to me how much of what I thought was just "standard" stuff was influenced by marketing 50-100 years before I was even born. Santa Clause as a jolly old man with rosy cheeks and a snow white beard wasn't a big thing until Coca-Cola made it part of their advertising in the 30s. The bacon with breakfast thing was the result of a food packaging company in the 1920s hiring a man named Edward Bernays to help them sell more bacon. Bernays was allegedly so good at marketing/manipulation that people like Hitler and Goebbels kept copies of his books. Orange juice became a thing because orange producers in Florida in the early 1900s made too many oranges for the market (in an attempt to beat out California as the country's orange production state), and juicing them was considered a better alternative to reducing production.
SlartyBartFast@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 253d
Some to add to my time travel hit list
burntbacon@discuss.tchncs.de · 3 pts · 253d
I try not to think about it too much if it's something that isn't something that I need to interact with, like orange juice or bacon, both of which I avoid, because, yeah, it is terrifying. Advertisements are real life attempts to shape the behavior of the world.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 253d
Listerine was a cleaning product until they decided to boost sales by positioning it as a mouthwash.
First, they had to convince everyone that they needed mouthwash, so they invented HALITOSIS (bad breath), and then offered Listerine as the solution.
Lysol tried a similar pivot, except they tried to market their cleaning product as post-sex birth control douche. Listerine's pivot caught on, Lysol's didn't.
kieron115@startrek.website · 3 pts · 253d
Halitosis was already the medical term for bad breath, with evidence of its use in England. All that word did was give an American businessman/marketer a polite euphemism to talk about something that was considered taboo at the time (body odors were associated with poor hygiene and lower status people). It does seem like they pushed hard with marketing to make it into a more widespread "problem" though.
https://web.archive.org/web/20160712170405/http://www.chemheritage.org/discover/online-resources/thanks-to-chemistry/listerine.aspx
JandroDelSol@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 253d
do... do you think bad breath is made up???
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 252d
No, I meant that they created a demand by marketing up Halitosis like it's a major problem.
That's nothing new, they still do it constantly. Those women's deodorant commercials make women feel like they are carrying a cloud of funk around with them wherever they go, and they have to smear this deodorant over every inch of their bodies or they'll offend every nasal passage in the county.
Before you can offer a solution, you need to make them feel like they have a terrible problem that needs to be fixed immediately, at any cost. Even if you have to make it up.
felsiq@piefed.zip · 2 pts · 254d
You commenting with interesting bacon trivia is nominative determinism at its finest lmao
Steak is a really good example of what I’m talking about, thanks for adding this
burntbacon@discuss.tchncs.de · 2 pts · 253d
Lol, I picked the name because of its effect on my life. I had a family member who would only eat their bacon if it was nearly burned, and so I have very strong memories of the horrible nature of bacon as a kid.
kieron115@startrek.website · 3 pts · 253d
My sister used to only eat a steak if it was charred black and covered in ground black pepper. Not sure if that's "better" or worse than burnt bacon.
cujo@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 254d
Ohh, I see. That weird thing where people make one really specific, otherwise small thing an absurdly huge part of their personality.
I've seen it with tea, coffee, chocolate, meat (specifically bacon and steak), and a million other things food-related and otherwise. I follow what you're talking about now, and yeah it's weird. I enjoy meat quite a lot, and I do have some kinds of meat I do like cooked a (general) particular way. I'm not going to go around preaching to God and everyone about it, though, and I wouldn't consider "meat' a part of my personality, lol. When people take one small, specific thing and make it their entire personalities it does get... Strange.
FatVegan@leminal.space · 5 pts · 254d
Tell someone you don't eat or like meat and they will tell you why you're wrong and what meat is best cooked how.
helix@feddit.org · 5 pts · 254d
Just tell a bunch of dudebros or old people you're vegan and have them explain it to you agonisingly.
JoMiran@lemmy.ml · 17 pts · 255d
sopularity_fax@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 255d
Which star trek is the best intro to someone young but totally new to the show/series itself? The original w/Shatner? I only know him from Family Guys various gag and cursing Kahn from Fiddler on the Roof
JoMiran@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 255d
Probably a toss up between The Next Generation (TNG) and Deep Space 9 (DS9). Do note that Star Trek series normally need about a season to find their footing. Season 1 of TNG was mid-tier but it still is a source of plenty of memes.
I think TNG is likely the better starting point. The original series (TOS) is painfully old fashioned, which could ve a good thing or bad depending on your tastes.
Dirk@lemmy.ml · 0 pts · 255d
TNG is also painfully old fashioned. Especially the fist two seasons are … hard to watch sometimes.
Honestly: I would start with VOY. It’s easy to watch, has a certain amount of action, and doesn’t lose it too much with society and politics.
VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 254d
Strange New Worlds is also a potential entry point.
burntbacon@discuss.tchncs.de · 3 pts · 254d
My friend is super into star trek and convinced me to watch some with him. I'd say go look up a 'top 5' of the OG star trek, watch those, then do what the others have suggested.
spongebue@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 255d
Monk. Most episodes follow the same formula, but it's always a lot of fun and when they do deviate a bit, it's so good!
bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 15 pts · 255d
Whenever I'm sick I will always just put on The Venture Bros. while I recover. The show spanned so many years, makes me feel better watching the show evolve and remembering what point in my life I was in when various episodes aired.
SlartyBartFast@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 253d
Still gotta watch the movie they made about a gorilla heart I think
kieron115@startrek.website · 15 pts · 254d
Burn Notice. I dont know what it is but it's like watching a version of "How It's Made" from a fictional universe. All of the voiceovers about spycraft are bullshit but my brain just buys it for whatever reason.
Also, can't belive I forgot this, but "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia".
sopularity_fax@sopuli.xyz · 5 pts · 254d
Sunnys got me thru incredibly dark times
kieron115@startrek.website · 2 pts · 254d
Same here. There's just something about the gang that helps me see the good. They're objectively terrible people but at the end of the day they always stick together.
benagain@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 254d
The intro to Burn Notice will play in my head whenever I see someone wearing sunglasses. Super cosy for sure, such a great cast.
kieron115@startrek.website · 1 pts · 253d
Have you seen Archer? It's an animated comedy but it hits some of the same vibes, at least for the first 3-4 seasons. Things get... weird after that.
benagain@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 253d
I think I started watching the first couple of episodes and then stopped, can't remember why. Might need to revisit it!
Diddlydee@feddit.uk · 14 pts · 255d
Detectorists. A delightfully quaint and funny series.
TheMinions@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 13 pts · 255d
Psych is always my go to cozy show.
sopularity_fax@sopuli.xyz · 7 pts · 255d
There really is something to the humble procedural drama
TheMinions@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 255d
I also really like Monk and Elsbeth. I like my procedural dramas as long as they have a wacky Sherlock type, I suppose.
I should really read Sherlock haha.
Aneb@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 255d
If you like psych like I did then High Potential on Hulu is really good and I love the main actress and her energy
TheMinions@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 255d
Oh I forgot about this one. Also really enjoyed it.
monotremata@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 254d
If you haven't already, check out Ludwig.
quinkin@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 253d
Tried Elementary?
TheMinions@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 253d
It was alright, I liked season 1 well enough.
sopularity_fax@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 255d
Do they ever not?
TheMinions@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 255d
I’m not well versed on Law & Order, CSI, or anything like that, but I don’t think so.
dethedrus@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 254d
I've heard it both ways.
quinkin@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 253d
You know that's right.
njm1314@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 254d
Hey, you hear about Pluto?
TheMinions@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 254d
Come on, son!
MrsDoyle@sh.itjust.works · 10 pts · 254d
Bluey. I'm an adult and don't have children. It's my guilty pleasure.
Arkhive@piefed.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 254d
You might enjoy Hilda if you like Bluey. Those are my two comfort shows.
burntbacon@discuss.tchncs.de · 2 pts · 254d
Bluey is fantastic. My partner is from australia, and every time we are waiting in a pediatrician's waiting room, we love it when it's on the telly. He says he could start a side business smuggling bluey items from oz to here.
ambitiousslab@lemmy.ml · 9 pts · 255d
Yes Minister / Yes Prime Minister for me. Despite all the scheming the humour is so good-natured throughout.
sopularity_fax@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 255d
Thank god for this place. Im aquiring it shortly
iguessimlemming@lemmy.ml · 8 pts · 254d
Probably not weird but an episode or two of MAS*H will always make me feel better
victorz@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 254d
BoJack Horseman is very oddly cozy for me. It shouldn't be. There's a lot of angst in there, but it's comfort.
TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 253d
my ex loved that show. i thought it was funny but meh.
turns out she had major lying/alcohol/money issues. go figure. and i was too stupid to realize it until we were about to move in together. her love of the show was her love of her fucked up treatment of me.
mad_lentil@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 253d
The underwater episode is great though, tbf
victorz@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 253d
There's even more episodes that are as good as that one IMO. The show doesn't have many bad episodes. Just a handful -- maybe -- of less interesting ones.
victorz@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 253d
Good thing she's your ex now, buddy. Glad you made it out.
cosmicrookie@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 255d
Star Trek The Next Generation
Modern Family
Dexter
Ghosts (Both versions)
LOST (right up until just before the end)
kieron115@startrek.website · 2 pts · 254d
I'm doing a Dexter rewatch over the holidays. Apparently there are a bunch of sequels/prequels now and I wanna refresh my memory before diving into those shows.;
sopularity_fax@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 255d
Dexter for sure for me
TheWillyPoo@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 7 pts · 255d
Scrubs, it's my comfort show when feeling down.
yermaw@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 255d
Except the Ben saga and the whole Dr Cox breaks down bit.
They are absolutely not for when youre feeling down.
caurvo@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 254d
Great for when you need to cry, though.
its_kim_love@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 255d
Come here brown bear!
TheWillyPoo@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 255d
EEEAAAAGGGLLEEEEE!
Una@europe.pub · 7 pts · 255d
From, horror show From, it's so nice to binge watch it. It's not like true horror but it is like mix of horror, mistery and fantasy and it is so funny to binge watch it and think about all sorts of theorise as to why that place even exist.
Gerudo@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 255d
It's so good for being such low budget compared to a lot of shows
reagansrottencorpse@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 255d
Gotta add this to my watch list
Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 255d
I love this show! It genuinely feels like a great setting for a table top game.
RiverRock@lemmy.ml · 7 pts · 253d
It used to be That 70s Show, but too many of the cast is too weird/creepy now
Nemo@slrpnk.net · 6 pts · 255d
Law & Order: SVU
sopularity_fax@sopuli.xyz · 3 pts · 255d
Same tho regular L&O is fine
Feel free to not answer but do you think Law and Orde SVU appeals more to women audience? As a guy i never particularly liked SVU altho i liked Olivia Benson. Very human cop
Nemo@slrpnk.net · 3 pts · 255d
It's possible, especially since SVU typically had independent female ADAs and mainline L&O's Jack McCoy could occasionally be abrasive or dismissive towards his female assistant ADAs.
But on the other hand, mainline has Jesse L. Martin and his pretty, soulful eyes.
sopularity_fax@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 255d
Choices, Choices 💀
ClockworkN@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 253d
X-Files
reagansrottencorpse@lemmy.ml · 6 pts · 255d
I find the Simpsons to be kind of a cozy show. Also Friends, how I met your mother. I find animation to be pretty cozy.
flubba86@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 254d
Scrubs and Stargate SG1 are my cozy shows.
kurcatovium@piefed.social · 5 pts · 254d
If I had to pick just one it would be Red Dwarf. I watched it so many times I can't even count it.
There are also some series that aired at the time I was returning from school I'd happily watch if they were on right now. Even though I'm not that interested to search for them though. Shows like Renegade, Walker Texas Ranger, Baywatch or whatever that Star Trek with captain Picard was. This is hugely influenced by time and place as our eastern block country just opened to western shows and movies and everything looked so flashy and bombastic. And everything was flashy and bombastic compared to bland and gray local production at the time.
Valmond@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 254d
Black Adder?
kurcatovium@piefed.social · 2 pts · 253d
Yeah, that one is great too. I really dig that British humor, also Monty Python's, Black Books or Yes, (Prime) Minister.
dethedrus@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 253d
Leverage and the continuation Leverage: Redemption.
theedqueen@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 254d
So many I guess.
HurlingDurling@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 253d
The Great Big North
sopularity_fax@sopuli.xyz · 3 pts · 253d
Thats the alaska one right?
HurlingDurling@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 253d
Yeah
sopularity_fax@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 253d
With Alannis Moriseette
bl4kers@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 254d
The Mentalist (2008-2015)
benagain@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 254d
Loved that show. From memory it started getting weird in later seasons but then wrapped up in a semi-satisfying way? Might have to.... starts looking for the box set
bl4kers@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 254d
Yes, it was soft rebooted for S6-7 because of a major event at the end of S5. About half the cast turned over, though they return for appearances. Ending was pretty satisfying, didn't feel too forced. The DVD box set is pretty nice, though I don't have a lot of those to compare against
mad_lentil@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 253d
Ds9? I don't watch shows anymore, though I like remembering it
SlartyBartFast@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 253d
ReBoot and Beast Wars
TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 253d
House MD
Routhinator@startrek.website · 3 pts · 253d
The Adventures of Teddy Ruxpin
OG SatAM Sonic the Hedgehog, the dark one where his family and friends have been roboticized.
Sumocat@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 254d
NCIS. We started watching the franchise with NCIS: Hawaiʻi, mostly because I support the film industry back home and love the scenery. From there, we watched the crossover episodes of the other shows, started but didn’t quite finish NCIS: New Orleans, then started the original show from the beginning until getting caught up last year. Now I throw on past episodes as background.
What’s funny is I assumed the spin-offs had to be crazier than the original because they must have had to escalate the storylines over time. Completely missed that call. That first season of NCIS is insane.
helix@feddit.org · 1 pts · 254d
The very first episodes start with a banger. The corpse stealing and Mossad killers are just so intense 😄
deathbird@mander.xyz · 3 pts · 254d
Sat doen and watched a bunch of the new Quantum Leap the other day while feeling lonely, and that felt pretty good.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 253d
The Andy Griffith Show, but I don't know about the adjective "weirdly." The show is supposed to be cozy and comfortable, and it succeeds better than any other show I know. Hilarious, too. Barney Fife is the funniest character in the history of TV. I even named my Lemmy handle after him.
Perhaps a better choice would be one of my favorite Star Trek series - Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, or Voyager. I record them on TIVO, so I have a huge bank to choose from. I often watch an episode as the last thing before going to bed.
ChexMax@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 246d
30 Rock Though now I've watched it so many times while sick/ can't sleep that it puts me right to sleep.
cerafredo@reddthat.com · 2 pts · 224d
basilisa@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 253d
Witchfire@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 254d
100 feet of silk rope
HurricaneLiz@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 254d
Supernatural
The Magicians
Resident Alien
The Expanse
A7thStone@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 252d
Gintama