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What are some "slow" shows?

Sort of relaxed, slow-paced, not a ton of plot.

Home Movies (cartoon)

Schitt's Creek

Corner Gas

Painting/Fishing with John

Father Ted

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The Red Green Show
Easy-going comedy with minimal plot, mostly there to tie together an episode of shorter skits. Some Boomer humor, but not too cringe, I think.

ghost in the shell, i couldnt understand that show for the longest time, until near the end of its life.

OG medical shows; ER predates house by like 10years, and went on like 12+seasons. only stopped at the later seasons, because house was better at that point.

The Simpsons comes to mind. There's usually a plot, but it's not too complicated and each episode is self contained for the most part. Seinfeld is similar with possibly less plot (it is a show about nothing after all).
- early to mid simpson was golden, modernized version isnt tha tgood, and shouldve ended the show long time ago.

Cosmos by Carl Sagan. It a science miniseries that I love dearly, but it’s like video Quaaludes.
- The sequel with Neil deGrasse Tyson is also really good.

Modern family.
It’s just funny enough to be entertaining and has some loose plot that’s fine to follow. Easily forgettable, but great for throwing on. Also, it’s cool to watch the kids on that show grow up over its 10 year run.
Community
Parks and rec
Are others I would toss on for easy to watch. Although community and P&R hide a TON of jokes that make it even funnier if you pay attention.
- Animal Control is like if Community had a baby with Parks and Rec.

Joe Pera Talks With You
- Ultimate example.

Detectorists
- i loved this one lots.
- Early Doors is another one I recommend to people who like Detectorists. Another slow burn, slice of life show. Definitely worth checking out :)
  
  I hadn't heard of this one, I'll have to add it to my list. Thanks for the rec!
  
  Came in here to say detectorists, now I'm leaving with a new show to rewatch, score!
- My lil comfort show

I gotta throw Scrubs in the ring here. Skip season 9.
- It ends at season 8, there's no season 9 😁
  
  Yup, I don't know what I was thinking. Must have been thinking of some other show with 9 seasons. 🥸
- Rewatching Malcolm in the middle, has a lot of the same comedy style, I'm willing to bet same writers. Good shit all around.
  
  Sometimes I don't understand downcotes.
  Malcolm in the middle is one of the best series ever. (imho seriously)

Northern Exposure is an amazing and very gentle show, if you can handle 90s tv.
- Watch it on Amazon or the music wont make sense
- I've always had a soft spot for this show, but I haven't seen it in years.

Man how has no one said Friends? That's basically a white noise machine on loop for our house.
- white noise
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  j/k. I miss when Friends were still coming out with new episodes. Those were less complicated days.
- Friends is a really funny show if you skip over all the Ross and Rachael garbage. Chandler and Monica was a better love story.

The IT Crowd, and Black Books.
- IT crowd is neat.
  
  Caw! Caw!
  I'm disabled!
  0118999..
  You wouldn't download..
  So many great things. Even the later episodes even if it's no longer IT much
  
  ARE YOU STRESSED?
  
  Did you see that ludicrous display last night?

Basically any sitcom made for TV and not a streaming service.

Tales from the Loop. I describe it as Eldritch Mundanity.
- This was a beautiful show!
  
  It's based on a art book that's very good. Electric State was based on a another book also by Simon Stålenhag.

Dead Like Me is fairly slow, but really interesting. Same with Coupling. Two great shows.

Letterkenny. Mostly character driven

Burn Notice, Royal Pains
Basically anything made during the heyday of USANetwork. “Dramas” without intensity.
- burn notice was my favorite for USAnetworks, then they did a small hiatus thats when i stopped watch. suits was right after BN, i never got into it, and its dramatized version of a law show, compared to other law shows. RP was interesting take on a doctor-esque show, too bad i lost interest when they did a wierd hiatus between the final season.
- Good answer. Some of the comedies that have been mentioned have a lot of subtle stuff going on that really require your attention (they’re mostly still good if you’re not paying attention, though). The USA stuff was pure fluff. Much of it was actually kind of boring if you paid attention!
- Psych probably too

I found Frieren to be quite slow, in a good way, but i think there are better options out there that i'm unaware of.

Community
The Good Place
Better Off Ted
The Trailer Park Boys

Kim's Convenience.

Letterkenny, maybe

I haven't seen it in years, so I could be misremembering things, but The Golden Girls.

Severance.

“Welcome Back Kotter” is about remedial education class so probably that.

I watch King of the Hill if i need to slow down after a busy day

Earth Abides
Its mostly slow. Apocalypse genre, without the insanely selfish caricature of the personal relationships between people.
- I started reading it because I saw it in The Last Of Us S2. Pretty good so far

I think Blackadder aged pretty well.

If you're not opposed to anime: Frieren.
Totally chill, nothing complicated, hardly any plot arcs, pure bliss.

Nichijou and High Maintenance are two that come to mind. Sort of opposite ends of the spectrum, but both are slice of life shows that are much more about vibes than plot.
Also if you like Home Movies then Dr Katz is a must

Lodge 49. Young guy joins a fictional group based on masons and other similar groups. It's a hanging with friends show with some plot.
- Love that one. Wish I could watch it again but i cut all the cords

Bubba Ho Tep

Breaking Bad was excruciatingly slow for me

Any hallmark channel original content is like white noise for your brain. If you like to have something on in the background but want to have absolutely no stake in the content it’s a good choice.
- We throw on bobs burgers or American dad on random for background stuff sometimes. Works well. Scrubs and the office the same

The Young Pope

I'd argue anything is a slow show if you watch it in a slower cadence. Our current lunch run rotates between the following shows on different weekdays:
I Love Lucy
Parks & rec
Mary Tyler Moore
Only Fools & Horses
Corner Gas
All in the family
Big Train
I didn't grow up in North America and have never seen some of these older "classics", so its been fun. Cheers was in there for awhile, but we noped out in S6 when the stories got too silly.
- Corner Gas is a favorite of mine
  
  I saw someone else mentioned Kim's Convenience which is also on my list.

The Wire is one of the best tv shows ever made and it’s a slow burn especially in season one

Midnight Diner: Tokyo Stories and Extraordinary Attorney Woo are the greatest tv shows ever created. There will be no discussion.

I'm a big fan of the Inspector Morse series. Theres the original series called Inspector Morse made in the late 80s. Then a show called Lewis made in the early 2000s. Then Endeavour which is a prequel to Inspector Morse which was made recently. All are good in their own way. These are all very slow, methodical, and long episodes made by ITV in the UK. There are loose overarching plot elements in each show that roll out slowly over the seasons. I have to be in a mood to watch them though. Usually late winter, or fall is when that happens.

Bee And Puppycat.
Try to find the original leaked episodes as they're better than the Netflix rehash.
Plot stuff does happen in the show but it's slow and never really resolved unless you want to track down the comics (and even then...), but for the most part the whole vibe of the show is slow, relaxed and chill.
Also the art/animation style is beautiful, and it's funny and sad and really well written (if you ignore the rehash) with some interesting voice actors.
- What do you mean leaked? It was originally a YouTube series on cartoon hangover. It was redone by Netflix when they purchased the rights.
  
  Season 2 was finished and leaked years before netflix picked it up. When it got bought by netflix, season 1 was condensed and rewitten into like 3 episodes and a lot of the lines in season 2 were redubbed.
  So much of what made the show good was in the original line delivery. Like Bee's line at the beach, "This, is as far, as we, can go." which was so perfectly done in the og, and then lost to the rehash along with so many other beautiful bits of voice acting.
  The rehash of season 1 literally butchered the story, changing and adding so many weird, clunky and just plain unnecessary details, which then made very little sense with the rest of the episodes that were the og season 2, which were mostly just redubbed in places with the existing animation kept.
  And the Netflix version also removed a really beautiful section of cryptic back story. That song made me cry the first time I watched it and the different animation style it had was really cool.
  Also what happened to Wallace? Justice for Wallace! Og fishbowl planet was the perfect first temp job.
  I am still sore about this. I love Bee and Puppycat so much and what happened to this show was terrible.

I don't think it gets any slower than Fishing with John

Check out iyashikei as a genre if you like anime. Relaxed and wholesome is kind of the whole bag.
If you liked Corner Gas, also check out Kim's Convenience.

The Sopranos

Cruising the Cut

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