Life is tiring. Work is difficult. It’s an election yr. It is sensible to unwind from all of it with some actually mind-numbing tv.

The factor is, if you’re within the temper to sofa or mattress rot and stream your troubles away, having to choose simply doesn’t attraction. What you really need is to calm down, maybe seize a snack, and let go—to cease considering as a lot as attainable. Deciding what to look at (or rewatch) could be a complete factor attributable to sheer quantity. Plus, there are some seemingly chill reveals on the market that fall beneath the edge of mind rot into “questioning your complete life” territory ( you, Is It Cake?).

So, what precisely makes a collection preferrred for shutting your thoughts off? The best mind rot reveals have an ideal mix of stimulation and sedation. They’re not uninteresting like your (my) Instagram story feed after an particularly vivid sundown (already noticed it, folks—I’ve a window too!), however they don’t actually require a lot from you by way of consideration or emotion, both.

With these metrics in thoughts, I assembled a listing of 10 tried and true mind rot TV reveals you possibly can throw on if you’re exhausted and attempting to overlook about your workday, or discover a respite out of your existential dread, or entertain your self if you’re trapped in that “can’t comply with a narrative extra advanced than The Very Hungry Caterpillar” section of being sick in mattress—in different phrases, when it’s worthwhile to tune and tune out

1. Intercourse and the Metropolis

This groundbreaking (for the late ‘90s) romantic dramedy is mind sweet in one of the best ways. There’s simply sufficient plot to hook you however the present additionally has loads of one-off, self-contained storylines—which suggests you possibly can dip in or out everytime you really feel prefer it. The phrase “iconic” will get tossed round lots lately, however Miranda (Cynthia Nixon), Carrie (Sarah Jessica Parker), Charlotte (Kristin Davis), and Samantha (Kim Cattrall) are iconic—their shiny lives in idyllic Manhattan, their flats, their outfits, and their romantic antics are solely barely much less relatable than they will need to have been when the present first aired on HBO from 1998 to 2004. (It’s now on Netflix, too, FYI).