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 it’s more fun to find it “in the wild”)
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.
Black Books.
Sorry, I need leatherbound pounds to go with my wallet. Next!
- Keeping Up Appearances
- Agatha Christie’s Poirot (with David Suchet)
- A&E’s Nero Wolfe
- Star Trek: The Next Generation
- Stargate SG-1
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.
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.
Strange New Worlds is also a potential entry point.
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.
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!
Detectorists. A delightfully quaint and funny series.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
Oh I forgot about this one. Also really enjoyed it.
Do they ever not?
have a wacky Sherlock Type
I’m not well versed on Law & Order, CSI, or anything like that, but I don’t think so.
Hey, you hear about Pluto?
Come on, son!
I’ve heard it both ways.
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”. A lot of that feeling, for me, is being carried by the music though.
Sunnys got me thru incredibly dark times
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.
The intro to Burn Notice will play in my head whenever I see someone wearing sunglasses. Super cosy for sure, such a great cast.
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.
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.
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.
Star Trek The Next Generation
Modern Family
Dexter
Ghosts (Both versions)
LOST (right up until just before the end)
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.;
Dexter for sure for me
Yes Minister / Yes Prime Minister for me. Despite all the scheming the humour is so good-natured throughout.
Thank god for this place. Im aquiring it shortly
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.
Gotta add this to my watch list
I love this show! It genuinely feels like a great setting for a table top game.
It’s so good for being such low budget compared to a lot of shows
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.
