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Earth Abides
Its mostly slow. Apocalypse genre, without the insanely selfish caricature of the personal relationships between people.
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Burn Notice, Royal Pains
Basically anything made during the heyday of USANetwork. “Dramas” without intensity.
Good answer. Some of the comedies that have been mentioned have a lot of subtle stuff going on that really require your attention (they’re mostly still good if you’re not paying attention, though). The USA stuff was pure fluff. Much of it was actually kind of boring if you paid attention!
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Kim's Convenience.
I found Frieren to be quite slow, in a good way, but i think there are better options out there that i'm unaware of.
Cruising the Cut
I think Blackadder aged pretty well.
Bee And Puppycat.
Try to find the original leaked episodes as they're better than the Netflix rehash.
Plot stuff does happen in the show but it's slow and never really resolved unless you want to track down the comics (and even then...), but for the most part the whole vibe of the show is slow, relaxed and chill.
Also the art/animation style is beautiful, and it's funny and sad and really well written (if you ignore the rehash) with some interesting voice actors.
What do you mean leaked? It was originally a YouTube series on cartoon hangover. It was redone by Netflix when they purchased the rights.
Season 2 was finished and leaked years before netflix picked it up. When it got bought by netflix, season 1 was condensed and rewitten into like 3 episodes and a lot of the lines in season 2 were redubbed.
So much of what made the show good was in the original line delivery. Like Bee's line at the beach, "This, is as far, as we, can go." which was so perfectly done in the og, and then lost to the rehash along with so many other beautiful bits of voice acting.
The rehash of season 1 literally butchered the story, changing and adding so many weird, clunky and just plain unnecessary details, which then made very little sense with the rest of the episodes that were the og season 2, which were mostly just redubbed in places with the existing animation kept.
And the Netflix version also removed a really beautiful section of cryptic back story. That song made me cry the first time I watched it and the different animation style it had was really cool.
Also what happened to Wallace? Justice for Wallace! Og fishbowl planet was the perfect first temp job.
I am still sore about this. I love Bee and Puppycat so much and what happened to this show was terrible.
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Any hallmark channel original content is like white noise for your brain. If you like to have something on in the background but want to have absolutely no stake in the content it’s a good choice.
We throw on bobs burgers or American dad on random for background stuff sometimes. Works well. Scrubs and the office the same
I'm a big fan of the Inspector Morse series. Theres the original series called Inspector Morse made in the late 80s. Then a show called Lewis made in the early 2000s. Then Endeavour which is a prequel to Inspector Morse which was made recently. All are good in their own way. These are all very slow, methodical, and long episodes made by ITV in the UK. There are loose overarching plot elements in each show that roll out slowly over the seasons. I have to be in a mood to watch them though. Usually late winter, or fall is when that happens.
I'd argue anything is a slow show if you watch it in a slower cadence. Our current lunch run rotates between the following shows on different weekdays:
- I Love Lucy
- Parks & rec
- Mary Tyler Moore
- Only Fools & Horses
- Corner Gas
- All in the family
- Big Train
I didn't grow up in North America and have never seen some of these older "classics", so its been fun. Cheers was in there for awhile, but we noped out in S6 when the stories got too silly.
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The Young Pope
Check out iyashikei as a genre if you like anime. Relaxed and wholesome is kind of the whole bag.
If you liked Corner Gas, also check out Kim's Convenience.
The Sopranos
I don't think it gets any slower than Fishing with John