Comfort shows without transphobic jokes?
Comfort shows without transphobic jokes?
I've been feeling down lately and I started re-watching futurama for some good nostalgia, but it keeps making transphobic jokes which is kind of just making me feel worse. Anyone have any suggestions for comfort shows to watch?
Ted Lasso
Adventure time
Steven Universe
Out Flag Means Death
The Good Place
What We Do In The Shadows
Our flag means death - comedy about an english lord becoming a pirate, their crew and adventures. It's funny, cute and often heartfelt.
They're not fiction, but two that work for me are Great British Bake-Off and Taskmaster. The people on GBBO are so positive and helpful, it's a welcome change from American cooking competitions. Taskmaster is creative and silly, always good for a laugh.
Second the recommendation of Ted Lasso. Ted is a wonderful example of a person who doesn't understand something, knows he doesn't understand, but his heart is in the right place and he wants to learn.
Schitt's Creek and Ted Lasso are great feel good shows with inclusive themes.
My ultimate comfort show is Star Trek: the Next Generation. If it's just me in the house and nothing good in my video queue that's what I'll turn on for noise.
My partner and I have been really enjoying Spy X Family. Its a nice little found family/comedy series with very wholesome content.
The premise is that the titular Spy has an assignment to make contact with a total shut-in who only appears in public for events at his son's school. So the Spy adopts a child from a shady orphanage and meets a woman who is willing to fake being his wife to get his child into the elite school. Of course, the child he adopted can read minds and the woman he fake married is secretly an assassin. No one but the child knows the truth about everyone and they're each so focused on hiding their own secrets they don't catch on to the others. The series isn't complete yet, but so far the major theme is them coming to genuinely value their little family as more than a convenient facade.
Its just such a cute show, and I go back and forth between cackling and tearing up at how cute they all are. The only thing I think is particularly off about the show is the assassins brother. He's a secret police officer and also incestuously obsessed with his sister. Its a weird inclusion, but he is made fun of by the narrative for his behavior and that is enough for me to still enjoy how good the rest of the show is
Here lots to choose from
3rd Rock From the Sun (comedy)
Barry (Dark comedy)
The Venture Bros (comedy)
Drawn Together (cartoon parody of big brother)
Scrubs (comedy drama)
Allo Allo (70's WWII comedy)
Ted Lasso (drama comedy)
Travelers (thriller/action drama)
ST:TNG / DS9 / Voyager (90's Star Trek)
Battlestar Galactica (Epic Space drama)
Quantum Leap (89-93) (unique drama)
Mr Bean (comedy)
Dragonball Abridged (Parody that followsbthe DB story)
Fawlty Towers (70's English comedy)
MASH (70's Korea war hospital drama/comedy)
Avenue 5 (if current CEO's got to run a space cruise company)
Better off Ted (parody invention company)
Dexter + New blood (drama)
Drew Carry show (comedy)
Happy Tree friends (when I'm feeling sadistic)
It Crowd (comedy)
The Newsroom (drama)
Parks and Recreation (comedy)
Silicon Valley (parody of the real silicon valley)
Stargate (any of them)
Like @Froyn said, Bob's Burgers is super cozy.
It’s always a good choice to watch Avatar
Dogs in Space
Farscape
She-ra and the Princesses of Power
All are scifi, the top two are sillier and the bottom two are longer and get a bit serious and emotional at times.
If you haven't seen Farscape and you like scifi space opera wackiness and Jim Henson puppets, seriously give it a go. It's very comforting and fun.
My partner and I were going to rewatch Futurama soon, since we wanted to watch the old ones before getting into the reboot. I'm not going to enjoy that as much as I thought I would, am I?
As for recommendations, I don't know if I would call it a comfort show since it can get really disturbing at times, but Doom Patrol is a great show, lots of fun and super queer.
Trailer Park Boys
Good Omens was fun
I'm sure you've already been through the usual suspects. So here's my list. Hopefully some more esoteric ones will help out.
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Our Flag Means Death
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Star Trek: Lower Decks
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Los Espookys
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Good Omens
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Killjoys
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Black Mirror
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The Magicians
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The Umbrella Academy
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Sandman
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The Orville
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Farscape
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Love, Death, and Robots
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The good place :)
@fadingembers Hilda!
Final Space is amazing, but unfortunately will never be finished :(
I've heard good comments about Orange is the new black, although I've never watched it.
I just remembered The Last Of Us series came out, but I forgot to check it out.
I rewatched Sailor Moon not too long ago, and it's pretty LGBTQ+ friendly for something out of the 90s.
Whatever you do avoid the dic dub at all costs.
The VIZ dub is pretty good, but the DIC dub is garbage.
The originals can get repetitive at times.
The reboot has better pacing with a less helpless main protagonist, but some of the story bits made more sense to me in the originals.YMMV
If you're of OG Futurama age, King of the Hill is pretty good about not being transphobic. I will always love Hank refusing to speak to Peggy's friend Caroline when she answered the phone in boy mode. No, he's looking for his wife's friend Caroline. Please don't try to confuse him with stories about who she used to be. He used to sell jeans, and only people close to him know that.
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King of the Hill. Actually has a couple of drag queens and trans storylines and they're treated respectfully