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New Girl (2011)First aired 20 Sept 2011The shared flat becomes a place with its own games, grievances and ways of avoiding an honest conversation. Nick, Jess and their friends are funny partly because they know one another's weak spots so well. A natural choice when you want the sense that somebody is always in the next room, even if…0
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Grand Crew (2021)First aired 14 Dec 2021The wine-bar meetups give these Los Angeles friends room to turn a small dating problem into a group discussion. Each has a different relationship with confidence and vulnerability, which keeps the company from blending into one comic voice. Choose it for the pleasure of an ordinary recurring…0
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Community (2009)First aired 17 Sept 2009A study group becomes its own strange little society, complete with rituals, rivalries and arguments about who belongs. The genre experiments work because the characters bring familiar insecurities into each new form. Its sharper moments are balanced by the growing knowledge that this accidental…0
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Derry Girls (2018)First aired 4 Jan 2018A scheme can be terrible and still become part of why friends stay close. The teenagers' clashing temperaments make the group feel lived-in, especially when a confident explanation immediately meets a friend's unimpressed reaction. The surrounding Troubles add real weight without erasing the small…0
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Brooklyn Nine-Nine (2013)First aired 17 Sept 2013The precinct's recurring briefings and competitions give the ensemble rituals you begin to anticipate. Their different ways of seeking praise or avoiding embarrassment make the work friendships specific. Its treatment of policing is comic and idealised, rather than a realistic institutional…0
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Superstore (2015)First aired 30 Nov 2015The shop workers cannot all choose their circumstances, which makes their shifting alliances more interesting than instant friendship. A policy or customer problem lets somebody unexpected become useful. The group includes real friction and unequal stakes, but the repeated experience of getting…0
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Abbott Elementary (2021)First aired 7 Dec 2021The teachers do not need identical methods to care about the school or one another. Their different priorities make a small offer of help more meaningful than a general speech about teamwork. Choose it if you want the feeling of learning a workplace's personalities and gradually understanding which…0
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Parks and Recreation (2009)First aired 9 Apr 2009Leslie's projects repeatedly gather people who would not naturally organise their lives in the same way. The resulting friendships become generous without requiring everybody to share her enthusiasm for a binder. The short first season is less settled. Later ensemble rhythms make Pawnee feel like a…0
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The Good Place (2016)First aired 19 Sept 2016A bizarre afterlife gives very different people reasons to learn together. The group's changing relationships are what make its philosophical puzzles feel personal, especially when help requires patience with somebody else's most irritating habit. Avoid detailed plot explanations before starting.…0
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Ted Lasso (2020)First aired 14 Aug 2020The football club becomes a network of relationships rather than only the stage for one coach's unusual method. Small encouragements and acts of listening give the group its appeal. Divorce, anxiety and other difficult feelings remain present, so the warmth is not a guarantee of lightness. Choose…0