The Office and Friends' Netflix dominance proves we are stuck in "the age of comfort TV"

The Guardian

"It seems that, in this time of unprecedented choice and quality, the so-called golden age of prestige television, most of us still want to watch half-hour shows about vaguely likable people in which everything turns out OK," says Richard Godwin of The Office and Friends' ranking as Netflix's Top 2 shows. "Ideally from the 90s, but maybe the 00s. And preferably something that we have seen many, many times before. Welcome to the age of non-event TV."