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Favourite TV shows and watching them over and over

Billy87

Does anyone else have a favourite TV show that they watch over and over till you almost know it off by heart? I find the show can become a kind of safe place for me, I know at the end of the day I can just get cosy and watch it and it's so warm and familiar and I can lose myself in the characters and just feel safe

does anyone else do this?

Thing is the shows change from time to time. For a while there it was the US Office, it got me through the second lockdown and the change of moving into my new house

Then for a while it was the 70s sitcom Man about the House

Now it's New Girl. I love it and I watch it all the time, I find the characters really comforting cos they're all a bit different and not "normal" people 

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  • Doctor Who is the mainstay one, though after forty years of being a fan, I'm only now getting to 'the great pilgrimage' - watching/listening to every episode in whatever form it exists in order from 1963-present. I'm still on the Hartnell episodes. I've done every episode before of course, but the release schedule used to be very patchwork. 

    Blake's 7 is another one I go back to not infrequently. And I'm re-watching Norther Exposure for about the fifth time. It's a great show for helping to lift one's spirits during challenging times, and is so beautifully written and performed. Just a lovely community of unapologetic individualists, and that gives me a lot of comfort when I need it most. 

    I'm two episodes away from finishing a Torchwood: Miracle Day re-watch. Less comforting! But a real tour de force of writing from Russell The Davies, and in my opinion the best season they did. 

  • in reply to Shardovan

    Did you watch The Sarah Jane Adventures as well? Russell wrote those too. I thought it was a great series. Doctor's 10 and 11 guest starred in them.

  • in reply to Luna

    Oh yes, appointment viewing! It was a lovely series with a lot of heart. What a wonderful thing for Lis Sladen to be so improbably and miraculously re-discovered and loved by a while new generation three decades on,... and as the same character! Rani and Clyde have their own audio spin-off starting soon. I think it's likely to 'canonise' that beautiful 'death of SJS' webisode that RTD wrote during Lockdown.

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  • in reply to Luna

    Oh yes, appointment viewing! It was a lovely series with a lot of heart. What a wonderful thing for Lis Sladen to be so improbably and miraculously re-discovered and loved by a while new generation three decades on,... and as the same character! Rani and Clyde have their own audio spin-off starting soon. I think it's likely to 'canonise' that beautiful 'death of SJS' webisode that RTD wrote during Lockdown.

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