11 Feel-Good TV Shows For When You Need A Pick-Me-Up

7. Parks and Recreation

Parks and Recreation makes you believe that if you believe in yourself and work hard enough, you can achieve your goals and make anything happen.

Leslie Knope may be the single most optimistic, inspiring character in the history of television, and she’s surrounded and supported by an incredible cast of characters. The show is full of hope, family and love.

With more than 100 episodes, Parks and Recreation gives you plenty of hours to spend in the “first in friendship” town of Pawnee.

Recommended Episodes: “Galentine’s Day,” “Summer Catalog,” “Flu Season,” “Harvest Festival,” “The Fight,” “Pawnee Rangers,” “End of the World,” “Ms. Knope Goes to Washington,” “Leslie and Ben,” “Ann and Chris,” “Leslie and Ron”

Parks and Recreation Seasons 1 – 7 are streaming on both Netflix and Hulu.

8. Playing House

This show features the perfect, goofy sense of humor that comes from life-long friendship. Maggie and Emma’s relationship is one of the best female friendships on television, and both of them have great comedic chemistry with Keegan-Michael Key as Mark Rodriguez.

Playing House is another perfectly bingeable comedy, with only 18 half-hour episodes.

Recommended Episodes: “Pilot,” “Bird Bones,” “Spaghetti and Meatballs,” “Let’s Have a Baby,” “Kimmewah Kup,” “Officer of the Year”

Playing House Seasons 1 and 2 are streaming for free on USA Network’s website. Playing House Season 3 will premiere in 2017.

9. Psych

Psych is another show that had its fair share of dramatic episodes, but more often than not, the silly case-of-the-weeks were wacky and light-hearted.

They parodied everything from Twin Peaks to American Idol to “The Shining.” There was a musical episode, a found-footage style episode, and holiday episodes.

Whatever you’re in the mood to watch, chances are an episode of Psych will satisfy you.

Recommended Episodes: “Pilot,” “Spellingg Bee,” “American Duos,” “Black and Tan: A Crime of Fashion,” “Talk Derby to Me,” “Gus Walks into a Bank,” “Dual Spires,” “Last Night Gus,” “Office Space,” “S.E.I.Z.E. the Day”

Psych Seasons 1 – 8 are available to purchase on iTunes.

10. Pushing Daisies

Combine a well-done police procedural with a fairytale and you get Pushing Daisies.

The visually stunning show is incredibly heart-warming, especially for a show about a guy who can bring anything dead back to life. Its charming characters and optimism will win you over in a heartbeat.

If you need an escape, Pushing Daisies offers an hour in a world that’s as sweet as pie from The Pie Hole.

Recommended Episodes: “Pie-lette,” “Bad Habits,” “Comfort Food,” “Kerplunk”

Pushing Daisies Seasons 1 and 2 are streaming on the CW Seed.

11. Raising Hope

Raising Hope was another sweet, family-focused comedy, with Martha Plimpton and Garrett Dillahunt standing out as Virginia and Burt Chance, one of the funniest married couples on TV.

The Chances aren’t the wealthiest or brightest people in the world, but they have a whole lot of heart.

Plus, the twins who portrayed Hope were definitely two of the most adorable TV babies ever. It’s worth watching a few episodes for Hope’s reaction shots alone.

Recommended Episodes: “Dream Hoarders,” “Snip Snip,” “Prodigy,” “Henderson, Nevada-Adjacent Baby! Henderson, Nevada-Adjacent!,” “Killer Hope,” “The Last Christmas,” “Sex, Clown and Videotape,” “Adoption,” “The Father Daughter Dance”

Raising Hope Seasons 1 – 4 are streaming on Netflix.

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