Sort of relaxed, slow-paced, not a ton of plot.
Home Movies (cartoon)
Schitt’s Creek
Corner Gas
Painting/Fishing with John
Father Ted
I gotta throw Scrubs in the ring here. Skip season 9.
Man how has no one said Friends? That’s basically a white noise machine on loop for our house.
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j/k. I miss when Friends were still coming out with new episodes. Those were less complicated days.
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.
Northern Exposure is an amazing and very gentle show, if you can handle 90s tv.
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.
Detectorists
Cosmos by Carl Sagan. It a science miniseries that I love dearly, but it’s like video Quaaludes.
Modern family.
It’s just funny enough to be entertaining and has some loose plot that’s fine to follow. Easily forgettable, but great for throwing on. Also, it’s cool to watch the kids on that show grow up over its 10 year run.
Community
Parks and rec
Are others I would toss on for easy to watch. Although community and P&R hide a TON of jokes that make it even funnier if you pay attention.
Animal Control is like if Community had a baby with Parks and Rec.
I think Blackadder aged pretty well.
Kim’s Convenience.
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.
Basically any sitcom made for TV and not a streaming service.
The Sopranos
Joe Pera Talks With You
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.
