TV Tuesday: Ahhhhhh

[yourlibrarian]

Is there a difference between comfort shows and shows that give you a mental health break? What shows might fit that for you?

Comments

[tinny]

okay that is interesting. commenter above said that all their tv is comfort viewing because they do it to disconnect from rl. I hadn't looked at it that way yet. of course that is what i do, but it's still not comforting. i like to learn stuff from tv - be it scientific or about the human condition - but depending on my energy level, i can only take that much.

that's where comfort viewing comes in for me. and if i can take even less - like right now - that's where the mental health break stuff sits.

so it's basically three tiers: 1) good/engaging stuff, 2) comfort shows where I like the characters, so I love coming back to them and seeing how they fare, sharing a bit of their lives, 3) anything that promises not to engage me *at all*, so I don't have to be sad with/about/for people.

I dont usually rewatch at all, so the rewatch=comfort doesn't apply to me.

i cannot pinpoint specific shows as being one or the other, it just depends on how i feel at any given moment. i will drop the more engaging ones if i don't have enough energy for them. examples of things I've dropped but am hoping to pick back up when i feel better: Heartstopper, We Are Lady Parts, Severance, Under the Skin. things I've started watching instead include... all the cdramas :D. Sometimes some of them start engaging me too, and then I'll drop them again.

[yourlibrarian]

1) good/engaging stuff, 2) comfort shows where I like the characters, so I love coming back to them and seeing how they fare, sharing a bit of their lives, 3) anything that promises not to engage me *at all*, so I don't have to be sad with/about/for people.

Sounds like a good definition to me! Well and even if a genre usually works for you, it's not always clear what a show is going to contain or direction it will go in.