Lodge 49. Young guy joins a fictional group based on masons and other similar groups. It’s a hanging with friends show with some plot.

“Welcome Back Kotter” is about remedial education class so probably that.

Letterkenny. Mostly character driven

Cruising the Cut

The IT Crowd, and Black Books.

Bubba Ho Tep

Bee And Puppycat.

Try to find the original leaked episodes as they’re better than the Netflix rehash.

Plot stuff does happen in the show but it’s slow and never really resolved unless you want to track down the comics (and even then…), but for the most part the whole vibe of the show is slow, relaxed and chill.

Also the art/animation style is beautiful, and it’s funny and sad and really well written (if you ignore the rehash) with some interesting voice actors.

Earth Abides

Its mostly slow. Apocalypse genre, without the insanely selfish caricature of the personal relationships between people.

I haven’t seen it in years, so I could be misremembering things, but The Golden Girls.

Cosmos by Carl Sagan. It a science miniseries that I love dearly, but it’s like video Quaaludes.

Northern Exposure is an amazing and very gentle show, if you can handle 90s tv.

Severance.

Man how has no one said Friends? That’s basically a white noise machine on loop for our house.

I gotta throw Scrubs in the ring here. Skip season 9.

Any hallmark channel original content is like white noise for your brain. If you like to have something on in the background but want to have absolutely no stake in the content it’s a good choice.