Comfort Food TV

Apple’s had a lot of success with Ted Lasso. If you have Apple TV+, I’d recommend it. Emily VanDerWerff wrote an excellent piece in VOX about why Ted Lasso works and the general idea of Comfort Food TV. I don’t consume a lot of TV, but I can tell you that my tastes have very much turned toward comfort food TV over the last several years.


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There’s enough conflict in the world. To relax, I’m not interested in watching people do knowingly bad things to one another. Instead, I prefer watching generally good characters try their best to muddle through. Ted Lasso scratches that itch. Also, I recently bought the DVDs for the complete run of Northern Exposure and it is giving me the same sorts of feels I got from Ted Lasso.