The summer news of the cultural news: Five well-being TV series

The term comfort television - well-being television in Swedish - has been in the cry for the past year. It came as a reaction to the TV series's rebirth on the many streaming services we have today.

Many of the new hushed series drip of violence, crime, blood, murder, evil death and heartbreaking and anxiety-filled relationships. It simply goes home. But also makes us viewers so emotionally exhausted that we need something quiet and pleasant.

Series where all the characters want each other well and you know it will end happily, or something that is just flamboyant, stupid and wonderfully funny.

That's where the well-being series comes into the picture. Series that also did not become less popular during the corona crisis when many had nothing else to do but plow the entire catalog of streaming services.

Hardest of all, at the same time smart and sharp. It came in 2003 and went on for three seasons. Often so funny that you laugh so much that you have to rewind in order not to miss the action. Nobody can ride a segway as well as Will Arnett and a banana costs 100 SEK. Netflix has done two reboot seasons that are not as good as the first.

A little gem in the skylight of a young oboist struggling to take a regular place in New York's Symphony Orchestra, Lola Church magnificent in one starring role as Hailey Rutledge and Gael Garcia Bernal as good in the other: She oboist he a kind-hearted cultural man conductor who loves yerba mate and don't bang on hallucinogens every now and then.

Tina Fey's masterpiece about Liz Lemon's life's work The girly show. You can't get enough of this ensemble. From Kenny the page who is kinder than Jesus to Jack Donaghy who is meaner than the devil, though funny.

Tina Fey's couple horse Amy Poehler's masterpiece about Leslie Knope's life's work: the park management in Pawnee, Indiana. It is usually said that Shakespeare was good at breaking the fourth wall, but he is lying here. No one is staring the audience in the eyes of April Ludgate and Ron Swanson.

The best comedy series made is Jerry Seinfeld's and Larry David's series about the relationships between George, Jerry, Elaine and Kramer and the many recurring characters - the parents, Newman, Kenny Bania, Joe Davola, Kramer's lawyer Jackie Chiles and others - are an incredible source of pure happiness.

The incomprehensible is that the screenwriters in nine seasons managed to fill a series about nothing with so much. And also tie it together with a perfect ending. Hat off!