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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.
Mine is Deep Space 9! I should rewatch voyager. I watched it as a kid on TV but I don't remember much.
Voyager has that "found family" vibe that most of the shows don't really.
Currently rewatching for the 5th or 6th time... Right there with ya
I will watch a Joy of Painting episode anytime I come across one on PBS (they stream on YouTube but itβs more fun to find it βin the wildβ)
- Keeping Up Appearances
- Agatha Christie's Poirot (with David Suchet)
- A&E's Nero Wolfe
- Star Trek: The Next Generation
- Stargate SG-1
For me, itβs delicious in dungeon. Iβm 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 Iβm 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 π
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. π 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. Thereβs a bunch of other small examples like that Iβve run into pretty regularly that are each innocent on their own but taken all together are justβ¦ odd. βCultishβ was probably too strong of a word but I couldnβt 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.
Iβm not one to try to tell people their opinions on subjective stuff are wrong and thatβs not what Iβm trying to say here, but I just do really think thereβs 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.
Just tell a bunch of dudebros or old people you're vegan and have them explain it to you agonisingly.
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.
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".
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!
Black Books.
Sorry, I need leatherbound pounds to go with my wallet. Next!
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.
Still gotta watch the movie they made about a gorilla heart I think
Detectorists. A delightfully quaint and funny series.
Psych is always my go to cozy show.
There really is something to the humble procedural drama
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.
If you like psych like I did then High Potential on Hulu is really good and I love the main actress and her energy
Bluey. I'm an adult and don't have children. It's my guilty pleasure.
You might enjoy Hilda if you like Bluey. Those are my two comfort shows.
Probably not weird but an episode or two of MAS*H will always make me feel better
Yes Minister / Yes Prime Minister for me. Despite all the scheming the humour is so good-natured throughout.
BoJack Horseman is very oddly cozy for me. It shouldn't be. There's a lot of angst in there, but it's comfort.
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.
It used to be That 70s Show, but too many of the cast is too weird/creepy now
X-Files
Law & Order: SVU
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
Star Trek The Next Generation
Modern Family
Dexter
Ghosts (Both versions)
LOST (right up until just before the end)
Scrubs and Stargate SG1 are my cozy shows.
Leverage and the continuation Leverage: Redemption.
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.
So many I guess.
- classic 80s/90s sitcoms (Cheers, Friends, Family Matters, the Nanny, etc)
- classic Simpsons
- 90s/00s PBS kids shows (Wishbone, Reading Rainbow, Clifford, etc)
- Bluey
- British shows (Keeping Up Appearances)
ReBoot and Beast Wars