I was going to start this post by saying that I promise next week I will publish on Saturdays again, but I can’t make that promise. I won’t that my next review will be about the book I’m currently reading because I don’t know if that will actually happen, but I’m here now and I want to tell you about my current comfort show.

Between October and November I dated this guy (hi, Dan) and in hindsight it was all very weird and toxic, but he did leave something good, something salvageable, and it was a recommendation of Arrested Development. Of course, given the weird and toxic nature of our…thing, he did imply that I probably wasn’t going to be able to understand the show’s humor. He didn’t say why, exactly, but he maybe thought that I wouldn’t get the jokes because English is not my first language, or that I’d thought they were offensive or insensitive, or that I wasn’t smart enough. Either way, I understand the jokes and find them funny, although like many shows, it probably would be “cancelled” right now. If anything, I think it’s self-aware.

Arrested Development is the type of show I watch when I don’t want to do anything else, usually when my anxiety is spiking or when I’m both physically and mentally exhausted. The episodes are like twenty minutes long so it’s a really nice show to binge-watch. The plot is also super easy to follow, so it’s not like you have to be fully invested to enjoy the watching experience.

What’s your current comfort show and why? Let me know in the comments.