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Stakes are: who has the soggiest bottom. The most-prescribed comfort viewing on the planet.
A small-town parks department, a big-hearted ensemble. Background-watch gold.
Warm, sharp, well-written. A workplace comedy where the workplace happens to be a football club.
Cold opens, clean episode shapes, ensemble joy. Easy to fold laundry to.
Seven minutes of an Australian dog family and now you're crying. Perfect show.
Six seasons of a family of monsters slowly becoming kind. Rewatch fuel.
Kelsey McKinney retells a stranger's gossip to a guest. Low-stakes, sharp, very listenable.
Roman Mars on the design hiding in plain sight. Bite-sized, broadly curious.
Bateman/Arnett/Hayes surprise each other with a mystery guest each week. Easy, chummy, funny.
Adventurers cook and eat the monsters. Cozy fantasy with recipes.
John Green rates parts of the human experience on a five-star scale. Read by John Green.
Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook take a single historical hook and run with it. Warm, sharp, endlessly re-listenable.
Loose, funny long interviews. Comfort listening with genuine warmth.
Musicians break down one song, stem by stem. Short, warm, quietly nerdy.
Bill Simmons and friends rewatch one movie you love and argue about it for two hours.
An expert in one narrow field, interviewed with real delight. Somehow always fascinating.
A botanist braids indigenous knowledge and plant science. Deeply calming.
The Mister Rogers documentary. Radical kindness, rigorously practiced.
Pixar's sandpiper chick learns to brave the waves. Six perfect kid-safe minutes.
David E. Kelley at his most unhinged. Closing arguments as Broadway monologues.
A Madison Avenue ad shop in slow ascent. The platonic ideal of the workplace prestige drama.
Four people keep failing to invent the future together. Quiet, devastating workplace drama.
ProductGraphSits in the workplace-competence lane: professionals being precise under institutional pressure.
An ensemble whodunit that earns every reveal. Built to rewatch.
Jonathan Goldstein helps people revisit a pivotal moment. Quietly devastating, often funny.
PJ Vogt answers questions that sound dumb until you hear the answer. Curious, generous.
Science-and-story storytelling with immaculate sound design. A gateway podcast that still holds up.
One big story from the day, reported carefully. Good commute companion.
Sarah Marshall revisits stories the culture got wrong — Tonya Harding, Y2K, the McDonald's coffee case.
Ray Porter narrates. Do not read spoilers — the audio performance is the whole point.
R.C. Bray narrates. Astronaut Mark Watney solves his way home, one problem at a time.
A Russian count under house arrest in a Moscow hotel for thirty years. Warm, formal, deeply comforting.
Kevin Roose and Casey Newton on tech-that-actually-matters. Curious, not credulous.
Trevor narrates his own memoir. The rare audiobook that beats the print edition.
An elf outlives her adventuring party and slowly learns what humans meant to her.
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A spy, an assassin, and a telepath fake a family. Warm, funny, weirdly wholesome.
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A quiet psychic wants to be a normal kid. The most sincere show about growing up.
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A human girl gets stuck in a witch's world. Serialized, funny, big-hearted.
The audiobook everyone recommends. Ray Porter does an alien voice you'll be quoting for weeks.
A filmmaker befriends an octopus in a kelp forest for a year. Quietly devastating.
The backup singers behind the biggest records ever made finally get the mic.
Wes Anderson does Roald Dahl in 39 storybook minutes. Cumberbatch narrates himself.