In the vein of:
30 Rock
Parks and Rec
Brooklyn 99
The Good Place
I miss being invested in those shows.
On Hulu is “Only Murders in the Building”
On Apple is “Ted Lasso” and “Shrinking”. Also after the first episode, “Mythic Quest” is pretty funny.
On Netflix: “The Derry Girls” (Irish Show), “The 90s Show” (Follow up to the 70s show and pretty good) and if you like Anime at all: “Delicious in Dungeon” was a fun and funny show.
Speaking of Anime; On Crunchy Roll is Konosuba: God’s Blessing on This Wonderful World!
. This is my favorite anime and I find it as funny as classic “Futurama”. Which by the way is back again and on Hulu this time. Not as good as peak, but still good. I think Konosuba is also on Hulu, if you have Hulu worth checking.
On Network TV, CBS to be specific is the wonderful show “Ghosts”. You can also look for the original British version which was different but just as good.
I went with comedies as that is what you appeared to be looking for.
Thank you!!
I forgot I watched the first half of S4E1 of Only Murders in the Building just the other day and thought it was very well done ! I hadn’t watched any of the show before.
Thanks again!
Sadly, the fragmentation of television means that now that a cable channel or streaming service might have one can’t miss show while the rest of their content is, essentially, dreck. It used to be that you could, for example, turn on HBO on Sundays at 9pm and watch a truly awesome show but now, not so much.
You’re going to want to start Only Murders in the Building from the beginning. The first season was quite a nice mystery, as was the second. By now the show is a lot of fun cameos and fan service, and they are harkening back to earlier seasons as part of this season’s plot. It’s a VERY FUN SHOW and I look forward to it now more than ever before, but it’s a “start from the beginning” type of deal.
What We Do In the Shadows is fantastic. Ghosts is probably the best broadcast TV show. Letterkenny and Shoresy are great but I’m not sure if their wide appeal.
Also on Netflix is De Volta aos 15 (Back to 15), which is a Brazilian time travel show about a 30 year old woman in ~2020 going back into her 15 year old self in ~2005 with all of her accumulated knowledge and wisdom. This is a great sort of not-sequel to The 90s Show as an 00s show. Even being in a different country, a lot of the culture is still recognizable as of the time. They really nail the teenage aspects.
On Hulu I’d also add Extraordinary which is a British comedy about a world where everyone has a super power. It is much more on the “silly” side of comedy, like Brooklyn 99.
I’m gonna say I thought That 90s Show started out slow.It just felt to me like a bunch of cardboard characters talking about whatever kind of stuff to no real effect for the first few episodes. There wasn’t much that engaged me, although I’d happily watch a show about Red and Kitty doing nothing but having breakfast each day. If it weren’t for my wife and daughter wanting to watch it, I’m not sure I would have gotten very far.
It picked up, though. Now I like it just fine.
Note that of those, Derry Girls, Ted Lasso and That 90s Show have all aired their final episodes.
Actually Ted Lasso might now have a season 4, It is looking likely.
They’re shopping the 90s Show season 3 around, but less likely.
Girls5Eva (Netflix) - About a girl group reuniting 20+ years later, along the lines of 30 Rock or Kimmy Schmidt (with some of the same writers).
Upload (Prime) - Satirical thriller about people in the future uploading their minds to a computer when they die. The satire part is better than the thriller part, but still very good. Created by Greg Daniels (The Office, Parks & Rec, King of the Hill).
I’m sure I can come up with a few more, but those two popped up off the top of my head.
Three of your four examples were co-created by Michael Schur, so maybe keep an eye on his shows.
After The Good Place, he co-created Rutherford Falls, but I haven’t seen it as it was on a streamer I don’t have (Peacock+).
His new show, A Man On The Inside (which also stars Ted Danson) will premiere in November on Netflix; I will definitely be keeping an eye on that one!
I think it’s a bit sad that all of those were on one of the three major television networks but many of the recommended shows now are on streaming services. (And actually, all of the shows you named were on the same network, NBC, though Brooklyn Nine-Nine spent several years on Fox before moving to NBC.)
Netflix has/had some pretty good animated shows.
Inside Job - A workplace comedy taking place in the conspiracy section of the CIA. Cancelled in 2023, but still worth watching.
Mulligan - A handful of random survivors try to rebuild civilization after an alien invasion kills almost everyone. Created by Robert Carlock of 30 Rock and co-starring Tina Fey.