M*A*S*H (the TV series), because you've never seen anything so casually refute the theory that you can't film war without making it look exciting, and because it's doing things with gender and sex and also with mental illness that maybe you only ever COULD do on TV for a brief period of time in the 70s without making a big self-congratulatory deal about it.
It is also spill-your-drink funny. Occasionally WHILE it's being bleak enough to go toe to toe with the ending of Blackadder Goes Forth.
(Everyone drinks. A lot. Often. If that's a deal-breaker, it's going to be a deal-breaker. There's an episode in S2 that's basically "oh okay that's what hypomania looks like when you don't really have a vocabulary for it," and all of S4 is an extended depressive crash. It's incredibly good for the soul regardless.)
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It is also spill-your-drink funny. Occasionally WHILE it's being bleak enough to go toe to toe with the ending of Blackadder Goes Forth.
(Everyone drinks. A lot. Often. If that's a deal-breaker, it's going to be a deal-breaker. There's an episode in S2 that's basically "oh okay that's what hypomania looks like when you don't really have a vocabulary for it," and all of S4 is an extended depressive crash. It's incredibly good for the soul regardless.)