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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Lifestyle
Nancy Durrant

Forget The Bear: comfort TV is taking over from prestige anxiety shows and that suits me just fine

Having spent much of this week languishing at home with flu (I write this from my sick bed because I am a martyr), wrapped in a blanket with a hot water bottle like an old lady, I was not expecting it to be the week that I discovered that I have something in common with Gen Z.

It was reported this week that the most streamed show of 2023 wasn’t The Bear, or Succession, or that thing about the Yorkshire Ripper – it was… Suits. A long-running show about hotshot lawyers being shithot at their jobs and having hot (definitely not shit) sex, that aired its last episode on its original channel, USA Network, in 2019.

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