I don’t know about you but there’s something about the days starting to get shorter as autumn settles in that makes me want to spend my evenings curled up on the sofa with a few episodes of something that just makes me feel good. Something cosy, something that makes me smile, and something that’s definitely not mentally or emotionally taxing!
If this sounds like your kind of vibe, then here are the programmes on my list to enjoy this autumn. Some of them I’ve watched before and keep coming back to, and others are ones I’ve heard great things about and that sound like they’ll fit the ‘feel-good’ bill.
The Good Place
If you haven’t already watched this then I highly recommend you give it a go this autumn. It’s based around a group of people in the afterlife and is a lot funnier than that makes it sound! It also has one of the best, most satisfying final episodes I’ve seen in a long time.
Where to watch: Netflix
Superstore
This is another one where the description just doesn’t do it justice. Because it is just a show about a people working in a superstore. But it is so funny, and actually has a lot of heart too. And it’s another one that has a really satisfying ending that wraps everyone’s stories up really nicely.
Where to watch: Netflix
Gilmore Girls
I can’t write a post about things to watch in autumn and not include Gilmore Girls! It’s one of my real comfort shows and always brings back memories of watching it for the first time with my best friend when we were in our early 20s.
Where to watch: Netflix
Two Guys and a Girl
I’m still mad that this show got cancelled when it did, ending on a real cliffhanger. But if you can get past that it is honestly such a funny programme that just never really got the recognition it deserved. I mean, it has both Ryan Reynolds and Nathan Fillion in it!
It’s about 2 guys and a girl who have been friends since college and who now live in the same apartment building. It’s silly, funny, and a show that I still quote to this day.
Where to watch: Annoyingly you can’t stream this anywhere but you can find the DVDs on Amazon.
Schitt’s Creek
I have to admit it took me awhile to give this a watch but I’m so glad I did, and I’ve watched it through a few times now. You do have to sort of stick with it through the first season but then it finds its stride and you start to really care about all the characters.
It’s another one that has a nice, happy ending that wraps things up really nicely and leaves you feeling good.
Where to watch: Netflix
Happy Endings
Like 2 guys and a girl, Happy Endings deserved to be far more popular than it was and should’ve run for more than 3 seasons. It’s about a group of friends who have to figure out how to manage when 2 of them break up on their wedding day.
Where to watch: Buy on Amazon or Apple TV
Friends From College
There are only 2 seasons of this programme but I still love it for a relatively quick show to binge-watch. In case you can’t guess from the name, it follows a group of friends from college as they reunite years later and work out how they still fit in each other’s lives.
It has a great cast including Fred Savage, Keegan-Michael Key, Cobie Smulders, Billy Eichner, and Greg Germann, and is just a really fun watch.
Where to watch: Netflix
Brooklyn 99
A programme set in a New York police department might not be an obvious choice for a feel-good show but Brooklyn 99 is so funny it has to be on my list. The cold opens are some of the best out there (you must’ve seen the ‘I want it that way’ clip at some point!) and the writing in general is just brilliant.
A lot of the feel-good element though comes from the relationships between the characters, which are built really well throughout the seasons and come to, for me at least, a satisfying conclusion at the end.
Where to watch: Netflix
I would happily spend my autumn evenings rewatching any one of those programmes, but there are some others that I’ve not seen yet that are also on my autumn to-watch list:
- Nobody wants this
- Ted Lasso
- Rivals
- Parks and Recreation
Have you watched any of these? Let me know if they’re worth me trying!
