What is your favorite piece of feel-good entertainment?

, director Mike Leigh’s enormously optimistic character study about a woman filled to the brim with, well, optimism, is a film like none other. Led by Sally Hawkins as Poppy, the movie smiles from ear to ear, greeting the world with kindness, openness, and understanding. This doesn’t mean it’s free of conflict, though. Instead, Leigh and Hawkins show a world where someone’s happiness is their strength, using it to resolve interpersonal problems without sacrificing self-respect. Poppy’s persistently cheerful disposition allows her to treat even the most distasteful and aggressive people with empathy, even it means rejecting them for her own safety. While the film’s opening scenes edge toward status, Leigh slowly reveals Poppy to be an aspirational figure, one that can face even the most uncomfortable situations with a smile and come out on top. [Matt Schimkowitz]Happy-Go-Lucky is available to .

is a television miracle, maintaining its wit, wonder, and sense of unconditional familial love across 11 seasons. Indeed, the animated sitcom is “,” ideally consumed at the end of a long day, but that doesn’t mean it’s lost its ability to surprise and delight, even after more than a decade on the air. The Belchers are a spontaneous bunch, and the show’s best outings follow them on their flights of fancy—sometimes putting them at odds with one another—but always finding a way to have them rallying behind each other by episode’s end. Like a Kraft single on a toasted bun, the characters of Bob’s Burgers stick together, and that warm, gooey feeling will stick to you, too. [Cameron Scheetz]All 11 seasons of Bob’s Burgers are available to .

I can’t argue that this is a go-to movie for me, since I just saw it for the first time, but Makoto Shinkai’s made me happy-cry harder than any other piece of pop culture has made me happy-cry before. Both Your Name and Shinkai’s follow-up, Weathering With You, hit on this idea of fantastically huge stakes as a metaphor for the difficulty of finding and keeping a connection to someone, and while I prefer Weathering With You’s rebellious refusal to flinch from darkness (it’s very much about climate change), Your Name’s sweeter and more hopeful take on the world is no less profound—and even more heartwarming. [Sam Barsanti]Your Name is available on all major VOD platforms.

So today’s the day I admit that I, an , have seen every episode of Home Town, huh? In my defense, the things I like about the show are the things that make it different from the house-flipping series that fill me with despair: First of all, the budgets for the renovate in their hometown of Laurel, Mississippi are usually less than $250k. So it’s a relatively attainable dream. Second, these are vintage homes lovingly restored and designed specifically for the people who will live in them, which adds a lot of personality—and, dare I say, heart—to the process. Most of all, though, everyone’s just so sweet and earnest; even when there’s not a tearjerker storyline at play, the affection the show has for Laurel, and small towns like it, feels genuine. And coming from the similarly blighted Rust Belt, the idea of reclaiming what was once abandoned and creating the community you want to see fills me with warm and fuzzy feelings. [Katie Rife]All 5 seasons of Home Town are available to stream on Discovery+.

Lee Hyori’s Bed And Breakfast (also called Lee Hyori’s Homestay) is a concentrated dose of soothing domesticity. In the reality series, K-pop legend Hyori is tasked with making sure her visitors have a lovely vacation on Jeju Island. She and husband Sang-soon spend each episode getting their eclectic home ready for their guests, and each season a celebrity joins the series to work with the couple. We get IU in season one, and Im Yoon-ah and South Korea’s sweetheart, Park Bo-gum, in season 2. Once the guests arrive, viewers are treated to B-roll of the stunning Jeju landscape and scenes of Hyori and her team bonding with the guests—usually over a home-cooked meal. And since traveling abroad is still out of the question for many people, the show is the perfect, warming balm for viewers desperate for some escapism. [Shanicka Anderson]Lee Hyori’s Bed And Breakfast is no longer available on streaming or VOD platforms, but clips can be .

Several of our readers mentioned the MCU as their feel good entertainment of choice. On Facebook, Aaron Smith writes:Make Mine Marvel! The MCU makes me feel like a kid watching Saturday Morning Cartoons. A safe place where I can escape from the day-to-day doldrums.Most of the MCU is available to .