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Quiet Character Dramas That Make Room to Breathe

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Shows That Let Middle Age Be Complicated
Shows That Let Middle Age Be Complicated
by tv_binger  • 
3 in common: The Change, Mum and 1 more
Middle age deserves more than a wise supporting role or a tidy lesson in accepting your lot. These comedies and dramas give adults unfinished ambitions, inconvenient desires, family obligations...
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Romantic Comedies Where the Leads Feel Like Real Adults
Romantic Comedies Where the Leads Feel Like Real Adults
by tv_binger  • 
3 in common: Mum, Trying and 1 more
Attraction is lovely. Finding out how it fits around work, old relationships, family and the person you already are is more interesting. These American, British, Australian and Spanish series...
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Shows About Starting Over in Your Thirties and Forties
Shows About Starting Over in Your Thirties and Forties
by tv_binger  • 
3 in common: This Way Up, Trying and 1 more
Starting again rarely means leaving every old responsibility behind. These American, British and Australian shows follow adults revising a career, relationship or way of living while money, family...
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Shows to Watch If You Loved Ted Lasso
Shows to Watch If You Loved Ted Lasso
by tv_binger  • 
2 in common: Trying and Somebody Somewhere
Ted Lasso's appeal is as much about accepting help as winning a match. These recommendations favour comic personalities who build something together, sometimes while making a spectacular mess of...
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Queer Shows With Room for Joy and Everyday Life
Queer Shows With Room for Joy and Everyday Life
by tv_binger  • 
2 in common: Sort Of and Somebody Somewhere
Queer characters deserve work, friendships, bad dates, irritating relatives and the pleasure of doing something they love. These series make room for those ordinary possibilities, from adult...
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Shows to Watch If You Loved Severance
Shows to Watch If You Loved Severance
by tv_binger  • 
In common: Lodge 49
Severance makes a sterile workplace feel personal: the rules decide what people are allowed to remember, want and share. These series follow that tension through divided identities, corporate...
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Shows Where Disabled Characters Have Full Lives
Shows Where Disabled Characters Have Full Lives
by tv_binger  • 
In common: As We See It
A character should be able to want a job, make art, fall in love, annoy a friend or make a bad choice without disability turning every scene into a lesson. These British, American, Irish and...
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Fantasy Series That Deserved a Bigger Conversation
Fantasy Series That Deserved a Bigger Conversation
by tv_binger  • 
In common: Lodge 49
Some fantasy worlds fit inside a diner, a motel room or a suburban shed. These discoveries favour eccentric communities, troubling bargains and everyday objects that refuse to behave, with a few...
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Shows to Watch If You Loved Fleabag
Shows to Watch If You Loved Fleabag
by tv_binger  • 
In common: This Way Up
Fleabag lets a joke be an invitation, a distraction and a way of avoiding an honest answer. These recommendations follow that uneasy relationship between wit and intimacy, with characters whose...
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Historical Dramas About Ordinary Lives
Historical Dramas About Ordinary Lives
by tv_binger  • 
In common: The Durrells
History becomes easier to feel when it changes somebody's wages, family dinner or chance to get home. These dramas follow workers, migrants, families and people surviving institutions with very...
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Sibling Dramas Full of Old Grudges and Shared History
Sibling Dramas Full of Old Grudges and Shared History
by tv_binger  • 
In common: My Liberation Notes
A brother or sister can remember exactly who you used to be, and have very little interest in letting you become somebody else. These dramas make that shared history matter: old roles return in a...
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Shows That Make a City Feel Like Another Main Character
Shows That Make a City Feel Like Another Main Character
by tv_binger  • 
In common: High Maintenance
A city starts to matter when it changes a journey, a friendship or the choices somebody can afford. These series find drama in housing, workplaces, borders, neighbourhood memory and the places...
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Shows Where Older Characters Get to Lead
Shows Where Older Characters Get to Lead
by tv_binger  • 
In common: Olive Kitteridge
Retirement does not have to turn a television character into a source of advice for somebody younger. These series give older people the romance, rivalries, work, foolish decisions and unfinished...
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Homecoming Shows Where the Place Has Moved On Without You
Homecoming Shows Where the Place Has Moved On Without You
by tv_binger  • 
In common: Somebody Somewhere
Returning to a familiar address does not restore a familiar role. These shows follow people coming back after time elsewhere, imprisonment or a life built on a different account of where they came...
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Limited Series for a Weekend Indoors
Limited Series for a Weekend Indoors
by tv_binger  • 
In common: Olive Kitteridge
A complete television story can be a particularly satisfying weekend plan: enough time to settle into a world, without signing up for several more seasons. These choices have finite runs and a...
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Korean Dramas Beyond the Rich-Boy Romance
Korean Dramas Beyond the Rich-Boy Romance
by tv_binger  • 
In common: My Liberation Notes
Office politics, a struggling baseball club, friends fitting music around medical shifts and mysteries with something to say about power: Korean drama has plenty of entry points beyond a wealthy...
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Parenting Shows That Admit Nobody Has a Perfect Plan
Parenting Shows That Admit Nobody Has a Perfect Plan
by tv_binger  • 
In common: Trying
The parents worth watching are often the ones improvising badly while trying to love their children well. These comedies and dramas notice the school-run politics, tired negotiations, divided...
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British Comedies Beyond the Usual Favourites
British Comedies Beyond the Usual Favourites
by tv_binger  • 
In common: This Way Up
There is a lot of good British comedy between the handful of titles that appear in every conversation. These are worth trying for a particular voice, an unusual setting or an ensemble that makes...
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Family Sitcoms With More Than One Way to Be a Family
Family Sitcoms With More Than One Way to Be a Family
by tv_binger  • 
In common: Trying
Family comedy becomes more interesting when care has to be organised around the people who actually live together. These households include single parents, grandparents, siblings becoming...
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Shows About Adult Friendships That Take Real Work
Shows About Adult Friendships That Take Real Work
by tv_binger  • 
In common: Somebody Somewhere
Being close is easier when nobody has to negotiate work, children, partners, distance or an old resentment that has finally become impossible to ignore. These shows give friendship those...
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