From Curb Your Enthusiasm to SVU: Presenting the best TV shows to watch if you're feeling anxious about coronavirus

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In this fraught time of coronavirus anxiety, Buzzfeed suggests Curb, Law & Order: SVU, Gilmore Girls, The Golden Girls, On My Block, Mad Men and The Outsider to help calm your nerves. "Though I’ve used the infamous Larry David is conflicted GIF many times before; I only started watching Curb Your Enthusiasm in earnest this year," says Tomi Obaro of her Curb suggestion. "I don’t really know what prompted it; maybe it was seeing Larry David on the cover of GQ or a friend’s offhand mention of an episode in which Jeff Garlin gets confused for Harvey Weinstein at a party. Whatever the reason, I’m finding it really comforting right now. There’s something about watching an old rich white man fuss over the indignity of having Ted Danson show up unannounced on his private jet that feels so cathartic at the moment. What a charmed life! Imagine if your biggest concern is making sure you get seated in the 'hot section' of a restaurant." Scaachi Koul adds of SVU: "When the end of the world comes — which is certainly what this current moment feels like it’s hurtling toward — there’s only one show that I want playing in an incessant loop as my brain slowly leaks out of my ears and my body disintegrates. The Law & Order franchise is perfect by any measure (I’m pretending Criminal Intent never happened), but Special Victims Unit has a special place in my unit (heart, I mean heart). After 21 seasons, it’s not like the show provides any real surprises or new thrills, or anything remotely close to a unique plotline, but that’s kind of the point. In the world of SVU, nothing that happens has any real consequences."

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