rec request: half-hour television

[jazzfish]

Hive mind! I request and require your assistance!

I have a plethora of good unwatched television at my disposal: Leverage S5, Counterpart S2, Sense8 S2, Smith and Capaldi Who, Legends Of Tomorrow, Peaky Blinders, Penny Dreadful, the list goes on. The problem I have with all of these is that they come in hour-long episodes.

I'm looking for something in half-hour chunks, so I can watch it on my lunch break while exerbiking.

Comedy is a tough sell for me, and unfortunately comedies tend to be what comes in half-hours. The last comedies I enjoyed were The Good Place and Better Off Ted. I tried Brooklyn Nine-Nine and 30 Rock, and found both more irritating than amusing.

I like having a throughline but it's not necessary. Wholly self-serving characters (e.g., Gaius Baltar) are a huge turn-off. I'm not opposed to older shows but I lack much in the way of knowledge of where to start there.

Thank you!

Comments

[sartorias]

I finally reconfigured my exercise bike routine to calories burned, and not time, which (because I'm old and a wimp) works out to about 40 minutes, which is just about the length of the Chinese and k dramas I'm currently into. (I've kind of gone off American television, except for rarities like The Good Place.)

[jazzfish]

I was vaguely wondering what the episode timeframe was like for non-English shows. That could work, thank you!