Lifestyle of a Fashionista

1/19/24

Spring is officially sixty-one days away, and it feels like winter. Most of the United States has experienced cold weather and nasty storms recently. This is a good time of year to curl up in your favorite chair or on the sofa and watch a comfort show.

What is a comfort show? From Hulu, “A comfort show can mean something different to everyone, but there’s one thing they all have in common — the ability to help viewers escape reality while bringing a sense of calm, stability, and familiarity to even the most stressful days.”

From Hulu, 25 Feel-Good TV Series on Hulu to Add to Your List of Comfort Shows

From BuzzFeed, People Are Sharing The Comfort Shows To Watch Over And Over, And I Can Totally Agree With Some Of These

From Netflix, Let These Slice-of-Life K-dramas Be Your New Comfort Watch

I’ve been thinking about comfort shows a lot recently, thanks to the Emmy Awards. The awards show brought together casts from some of the most popular shows on television.

From BuzzFeed, 10 Side-By-Side Photos That Prove The Real Star Of The Emmys Was The Set Design Crew

Several Emmy viewers posted positive reviews of the show thanks to the tributes to nostalgic television shows. I enjoyed the cast reunions and the reminders of some of my favorite television shows through the years.

Some of the shows mentioned and wear to stream them:

Good Times (on Peacock)

Facts of Life (on Tubi)

The Sopranos (on Max), celebrating it’s 25th anniversary

Martin (on Max)

Cheers (on Hulu)

It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia (on Hulu)

Grey’s Anatomy (on Netflix and Hulu), still airing new episodes on ABC (and Hulu) starting March 14th, it’s the longest running medical show.

All in the Family (on Prime Video)

Ally McBeal (not streaming). I loved watching Ally McBeal, thanks to an internet outage and my DVD collection, I rewatched a few episodes this week.

I have always loved watching television and movies. I enjoy escaping a different setting and watching characters interact and deal with other issues. I grew up in the seventies and eighties, and we had some quality television. There were several comedies and dramas about families, many shows about private detectives, and we had reruns.

For the young people reading this, reruns were shows from older decades that aired on television between the new shows, mainly in the afternoon. I would watch Laverne and Shirley, I Love Lucy, and Gilligan’s Island, to name a few. The new shows would air at night; Saturday nights were my favorite when The Love Boat aired before Fantasy Island.

It’s fun to remember watching these shows; I can still picture sitting in the TV room watching these shows. You would have to time bathroom and snack breaks to fit during the commercials. Friends and family would call out, “It’s back on!” if you were out of the room when the commercials ended. There was no way to pause or rewind.

Thanks to streaming services we can now watch full seasons of our favorite shows, or try watching a comfort show you haven’t watched yet.