A salve for anxiety

(There will be some man-on-man sex, in street language, so not for kids or the sexually modest) From my 6/13 posting “Two laughs-out-loud and a shiver of self-recognition”, about this Sarah Akinterinwa Psychiatrist strip: The therapist recommends, as a relief from anxiety, the familiar comfort of rewatching the same series until its outcomes feel more knowable than your own: a very common strategy for dealing with the terrible burdens of the daily news — and [a salve for anxiety] I regularly employ For me, not a joke, but a life strategy. Emily Menon Bender then wondered what some of my favorites were. Below, with only minor editing, my answer. — AMZ > EMB: My all-time favorites are The West Wing and Sports Night, but my DVDs of them have gone away with all my other DVDs (I’ve had to give up a lot), so I’m limited to what gets replayed on channels I get on my basic cable subscription (which is all I can afford). Major Crimes (because it’s really a sprawling 19th-century novel done as…