2022 may have been a year of highs and lows, but that shouldn’t stop you from giving it a proper goodbye. With a hopefully better year just around the corner, if you want to try something different than the popular titles like ‘Friends’ and ‘The Big Bang Theory’, here are five sitcoms to laugh the night away into a new 2023.
1. How I Met Your Mother (2005 -2014) – Hotstar
‘How I Met Your Mother’ is the story of Ted (the father) and his friends’ adventures leading up to meeting Ted’s life partner. Fast forward a few years, and Ted tells the same story to his kids – the journey leading to meeting their mother. Set up in flashbacks, HIMYM was the go-to series after Friends ended its run with the tenth season.
2. Modern Family (2009 – 2020) – Hotstar
Told from the perspective of an unseen documentary filmmaker, the series offers an honest, often-hilarious perspective of family life. Following three modern-day American families trying to deal with their kids, quirky spouses and jobs in their unique ways, the series has no dearth of hilarious situations and characters.
3. Schitt’s Creek(2015 – 2020) – Netflix
After their business manager embezzles the family business, a wealthy couple-video store magnate Johnny(Eugene Levy) and his soap opera star wife Moira(Catherine O’Hara)- suddenly find themselves completely broke. Their only remaining asset? A small town called Schitt’s Creek, which the family bought years earlier as a joke.
4. Brooklyn Nine Nine (2013 – 2021) – Netflix
The series’ premise revolves around seven New York City Police Department (NYPD) detectives who are adjusting to life under their new commanding officer, the serious and stern Captain Raymond Holt (Andre Braugher). Featuring an ensemble cast headed by Braugher and Andy Samberg, look out for Chelsea Peretti’s Gina Linetti, a quirky character who is a whole mood all on her own.
5. What We Do In The Shadows (2019) – Hotstar
Based on the feature film of the same name from Jemaine Clement and Taika Waititi, “What We Do in the Shadows” is a documentary-style look into the daily (or rather, nightly) lives of four vampires who’ve “lived” together for hundreds of years in Staten Island. With well-written pop culture references, this one is an underrated gem.