Sort of relaxed, slow-paced, not a ton of plot.
Home Movies (cartoon)
Schitt’s Creek
Corner Gas
Painting/Fishing with John
Father Ted
The IT Crowd, and Black Books.
IT crowd is neat.
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.
Bubba Ho Tep
Earth Abides
Its mostly slow. Apocalypse genre, without the insanely selfish caricature of the personal relationships between people.
I haven’t seen it in years, so I could be misremembering things, but The Golden Girls.
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.
Severance.
Man how has no one said Friends? That’s basically a white noise machine on loop for our house.
white noise
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j/k. I miss when Friends were still coming out with new episodes. Those were less complicated days.
I gotta throw Scrubs in the ring here. Skip season 9.
Rewatching Malcolm in the middle, has a lot of the same comedy style, I’m willing to bet same writers. Good shit all around.
Northern Exposure is an amazing and very gentle show, if you can handle 90s tv.
Cosmos by Carl Sagan. It a science miniseries that I love dearly, but it’s like video Quaaludes.
Detectorists
i loved this one lots.
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.
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
Basically any sitcom made for TV and not a streaming service.
