[Available on BBC iPlayer]

Maybe you’re bored of endlessly swiping on people you fear you’ll never get to meet, or your partner’s newest lockdown hobby has got you questioning whether maybe Bumble should be your new form of entertainment. Look no more, you can immerse yourself in the endearingly aimless and often unlucky Love Life of Darby. Played by Anna Kendrick, who proves that maybe your first love wasn’t meant to be your last, and every bad date is a necessary boulder when you’re scaling the rocky cliff face of modern dating. 

[Available on BBC iPlayer] 

Sure, walking is all we are allowed to do these days to spice up our 9-5s, so why would you want to spare any free time you do have to watch… other people walk? Well, five minutes into an episode of BBC’s Winter Walks will have you wide-eyed at the unrelenting raw beauty of our British landscape and swaddled by the blanketing calm created by each storyteller as their 360 camera makes a walk in the great outdoors feel like the epitome of freedom. If you need more convincing, I recommend the episode featuring Simon Armitage and spending half an hour watching him intermingling poetry and pints.

[Available on Netflix]

Schools may be closed for the foreseeable, but Elite brings all the fervour of teenage drama with the class conflicts embedded in the spanish school systems. As love, sex and money merge the boundaries of their morality, this group of exceptionally preened teens find themselves in the middle of a murder investigation... more than once. 

[Available on Netflix]

As their husbands reveal that they are not just business partners, Grace and Frankie go from rivalry wives to housemates as the assets are divided up. Watching the cinematic matriarchs, Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin, as their families flourish across the six seasons, you'll reluctantly become invested in their chaotic business ventures and be constantly reminded that life doesn't end when you turn 25. So, whether you also want to design a vibrator for the elderly or fall in love with a man half your age, you've got all the time in the world to do it, baby, sixty’s the new thirty.

[Available on Netflix]

If you’re sick of being hounded by the Duolingo owl but refuse to give up on your New Year’s Resolution of learning a language, then bang this baby on with subtitles and let the sensual and sculpted Spanish sonics wash over you for four whole seasons of La Casa de Papel. As a tweed-clad criminal mastermind known as ‘The Professor’ employs a misfit group of outrageous yet endearing criminals known only by the city-based pseudonym they’re given, you’re taken along as a very willing hostage to witness the biggest heist attempt in Spanish history.

[Available on Netflix]

One quick google of Lovesick will inform you that this show was meant to be called 'Scrotal Recall', need I say more? This painfully British sitcom with a cast of familiar faces follows hopeless romantic Dylan, a 20-something lothario, who has to retrace his long list of lovers when he finds out he has an STI. From the pain of unrequited love to the equally painful ‘what if’ of past relationships, this easy watch lets you maintain your dignity and simply observe someone else’s romantic dalliance go south from the safety of your sofa.

[Available on BBC iPlayer]

Steve McQueen's Small Axe is a series of five exquisite true stories from the last half of the twentieth century, the title of which is derived from the West Indian proverb "If you are the big tree, we are the small axe". The rich combination of friendship, family, love and lament casts light on the West Indian community of London, from the pure joy and richness of their culture to the relentless racism and discrimination waiting on their doorsteps. The whole cinematic anthology is available to watch on iPlayer now.