Ted Lasso of course!

The Good Place is overall pretty positive. Same with Parks and Recreation as well as Abbot Elementary.

Malcolm in the Middle

Star Trek: The Next Generation

Probably the most wholesome and positive of all the Treks. There’s a reason it’s so loved

Everything Everywhere All at Once

What We Do In The Shadows

Both the movie and the series.

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I know this is a pretty popular one but I don’t think I’ve ever not felt better after an episode or two (or 6) of Futurama. As for movies, Hot Fuzz always has something new and funny you hadn’t noticed before on each watch.
I also think many of the studio Ghibli films give off some pretty good vibes (emphasis on the word ‘many’ though, there are some pretty gut-wrenching ones). Any of the Mr Bean movies or episodes also cheer me up pretty well. ETA: for shows that leave you feeling positive, many of the Star Trek series focus on the good aspects of humanity, and present very meaningful ideas on how to achieve a positive outcome for all. My personal favorites so far are Deep Space 9 and the Next Generation, although Voyager and many of the others are just as good.

The recent series Jury Duty was hilarious and surprisingly wholesome and showed how there are actual good people in the world.

I know it’s kinda corny and basically a big ad for Google but I low key love The Internship. Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn are hilarious together and the movie is about how it’s never too late to change your life and it always just makes me feel good.

Bobs Burgers is hilarious and chaotic, yet simultaneously wholesome and positive comedy. The earlier seasons definitely lean more into the chaos, but even then, the family is such a positive example of semi-dysfunctional people loving each other to the max. Very few couples in TV or movies have anywhere near as good of a relationship as Bob and Linda, and their kids have some of my favorite sibling dynamics of any show I’ve ever watched.

Pushing Daisies is a really wholesome show, funny and what I found to be an interesting plot too.

Home Movies

K-dramas like What’s wrong with secretary Kim, Hometown Cha-cha-cha and Romance is a Bonus Book. Start-Up and Search WWW are about people running businesses and are not so sappy, but nothing much tragic. It’s OK not to be OK, SKY Castle, Move to Heaven and Extraordinary Attorney Woo have some dark stuff, but balance it with some really funny and heartfelt stuff and end up on a positive note.

Nathan for You

• Pushing Daisies,
• Gravity Falls,
• Amphibia,
• The Good Place,
• Strange World (2022),
• The Lost City (2022),
• “Confess, Fletch”,
• The unbearable weight of massive talent,
• Everything everywhere all at once,
• Lightyear,
• Warm Bodies,
• Ghostbusters: Afterlife,
• The secret life of Walter Mitty,
• Don Jon,
• Oscar (1991, I love this one),
• What we do in the shadows,
• Paul (2011),
• Hitchcock (2012),
• Logan Lucky,
• Good Omens,
• Bird on a wire,
• Miracle Workers,
• Stranger than fiction (2006),
• Lars and the real girl,
• Hot Fuzz,
• The King’s Speech,
• A beautiful Mind,
• The eternal sunshine of the spotless mind (warning: see the comment ) ,
• Groundhog day,
• What dreams may come (warning: deals with loss and mourning),
• Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001),
• Contact.