It’s no secret that I love binge-watching. Diving into the stories within movies and TV shows is one of my favorite ways to unwind and take a mental break from working. I especially love the autumn/winter seasons when I can cozy up in a thick sweater and have a hot cup of something delicious to sip on while I immerse myself into this fictional world. I’ve put together a list of 23 cozy tv shows to watch this fall that you can dive into. I hope you enjoy them and feel all the cozy feels while watching.
The Perfect Cozy Tv Shows To Binge-Watch:
1. Gilmore Girls
Available on Amazon | 7 Seasons
“Set in a storybook Connecticut town populated by an eclectic mix of dreamers, artists, and everyday folk, this multigenerational drama about family and friendship centers around Lorelai Gilmore and her daughter, Rory. Lorelai owns the town’s bed-and-breakfast, the Dragonfly Inn, with best friend/chef Sookie, and contends with weekly dinners with eccentric, well-off parents Richard and Emily Gilmore (who always have something to say about their daughter’s life). After high school, Rory attends Yale University but frequently returns to Stars Hollow to visit her mom.”
2. Good Witch
Available on Amazon and Hallmark Channel Now | 7 Seasons and 13 Movies
“Good Witch” will take viewers on a new magical journey with Cassie Nightingale (Catherine Bell) and her bright, young-teenage daughter Grace (Bailee Madison), who shares her mom’s special intuitive charm.”
3. One Tree Hill
Available on Amazon | 9 Seasons
“Aside from basketball, Nathan and Lucas have little in common, but the two young men share the same father. Nathan is the star of the high school basketball team and Lucas is a legendary player on the playground.”
4. When Calls The Heart/When Hope Calls
When Calls The Heart (Original)
Available on Amazon | Renewed for season 9
“Elizabeth Thatcher, a young teacher accustomed to her high society life, receives her first classroom post in a small town in the Western Frontier still recovering from a recent coal mining disaster that claimed the lives of most of the town’s miners.”
When Hope Calls (Spinoff)
Available on Amazon | Renewed for season 2
“Sisters Lillian and Grace establish an orphanage in Lillian’s hometown.”
5. Friends
Available on Amazon | 10 Seasons
“”Friends” is a smart, sophisticated comedy that looks into the hearts and minds of a group of friends living in New York.”
6. Reign
Available on Amazon | 4 Seasons
“Hidden between the lines of the history books is the story of Mary Stuart, the young woman the world would come to know as Mary, Queen of Scots. The teenage Mary is already a headstrong monarch – beautiful, passionate, and poised at the very beginning of her tumultuous rise to power.”
7. Cable Girls
Available on Netflix | 4 Seasons
“It’s the 1920s Madrid and Spain has just gotten its first national telephone company, located in Madrid. For four young women who get jobs there, it’s more than just work. It represents progress that is being made at the time as women are gaining more equality with men. This drama series follows the ladies, known as “cable girls,” who feel attached in different ways — to their families, their partners, and their memories.”
8. Ginny & Georgia
Available on Netflix | Renewed for season 2
“Teenage Ginny and her family yearn to put down roots in a picturesque New England town after years on the run.”
9. Jane The Virgin
Available on Netflix | 5 Seasons
“All the years of watching telenovelas with the two women who raised her – her sexy, young-at-heart mother, Xiomara (“Xo”), and her still – devout grandmother, Alba – have given Jane a slightly unrealistic view of romance. Although she is determined not to make the same mistake Xo made – becoming an unwed mother at 16 Jane could not be closer to the two wonderful women who have shaped her life.”
10. The Queen’s Gambit
Available on Netflix | 1 Season
“Set during the Cold War era, orphaned chess prodigy Beth Harmon struggles with addiction in a quest to become the greatest chess player in the world.”
11. The Vampire Diaries/The Originals/Legacies
The Vampire Diaries
Available on Amazon | 8 Seasons
“Trapped in adolescent bodies, feuding vampire brothers Stefan and Damon vie for the affection of captivating teenager Elena.” Based on the book series by L.J. Smith.
The Originals (Spinoff)
Available on Amazon | 5 Seasons
“From the executive producer of The Vampire Diaries and simmering with supernatural elements, this sexy new series centers on the Original vampire family, as the dangerous vampire/werewolf hybrid, Klaus (Joseph Morgan), returns to New Orleans – the town he helped build centuries ago – to find his diabolical former protégé, Marcel (Charles Michael Davis), a charismatic vampire, in control.”
Legacies (Spinoff of the Spinoff)
Available on Amazon | 4 Seasons
“The iconic heroes and villains of The Vampire Diaries and The Originals left a legacy of love and family in their wake, which continues in LEGACIES, a drama that tells the story of the next generation of supernatural beings at The Salvatore School for the Young and Gifted. Will these young witches, vampires, and werewolves become the heroes they want to be — or the villains they were born to be?”
12. Sweet Magnolias
Available on Netflix | Renewed for season 2
“Lifelong friends lift each other up as they juggle relationships, family and careers in the small Southern town of Serenity.”
13. Grey’s Anatomy
Available on Amazon, Hulu, and Netflix | 18 Seasons
“Meet Meredith Grey, a brilliant first-year surgical intern at Seattle Grace Hospital. Together with her fellow residents-in-training, Meredith navigates her way through the daily traumas and social land mines of life inside the hospital and out in the real world.”
14. Full House/Fuller House
Full House (Original)
Available on Amazon | 8 Seasons
“Comedian Bob Saget stars in this heartfelt comedy series as Danny Tanner, the widowed father of three young and rambunctious girls: 9-month-old Michelle, 5-year-old Stephanie and 10-year-old D.J. Danny recruits his two buddies — his rock ‘n’ roller brother-in-law, Jesse (John Stamos), and best friend, Joey (Dave Coulier), a struggling stand-up comic — to move in and help him raise the brood.”
Fuller House (Spinoff)
Available on Amazon | 5 Seasons
“In the spinoff series, Fuller House, veterinarian and recently widowed D.J. Tanner-Fuller (Candace Cameron Bure) lives in her childhood home with younger sister and aspiring musician Stephanie Tanner (Jodie Sweetin) and DJ’s lifelong best friend/fellow single mother Kimmy Gibbler (Andrea Barber). The women support one another as they navigate careers, parenting and relationships.”
15. Sister, Sister
Available on Amazon and Netflix | 6 Seasons
“Tia and Tamera are twins who were separated at birth, with each being adopted by a different parent. One day, the teens have a chance encounter while shopping at a clothing store in the mall. After the families meet, Tamera’s adoptive father reluctantly allows Tia and her mother to move into his home so the girls can be together.”
16. The Bold Type
Available on Amazon | 5 Seasons
“Putting together a magazine is not an easy task, requiring a lot of teamwork to finish the job and get the publication on newsstand shelves. That’s why the staffers responsible for producing global women’s magazine Scarlet lean on one another as they try to find their own voices. While working together to publish each issue of the periodical, they struggle to find their identities, manage friendships and find love. The drama series is inspired by the life of longtime magazine editor and executive Joanna Coles, who serves as an executive producer.”
17. Arrow
Available on Amazon | 8 Seasons
“After being marooned for five years on a remote island, billionaire Oliver Queen (Stephen Amell) returns home with a mysterious agenda and a lethal set of new skills that he uses in a war on crime in this hard-hitting action series. Reinventing the DC Comics character for a modern-day audience, the Arrow is not a superhero … but a hero – every bit as dangerous as the criminals he’s hunting.”
18. Charmed
Charmed (The Original Series)
Available on Amazon | 8 Seasons
“A group of sisters discover they are witches. Luckily for the world, they’re of the good variety. Banding together in their ancestral home in San Francisco, they work together to fight evil, with each having a specific special power. Although outwardly they are average women, with jobs, relationships and friends, they are also powerful witches, but when they work together, their powers are enhanced. As The Charmed Ones, their destiny is to protect innocents from evil.”
Charmed (The Reboot)
Available on Amazon | 3 Seasons
“Mel and Maggie Vera suffer a shock when their mother dies suddenly, but before they have time to heal from their loss, another surprise shows up on their doorstep in the shape of an older sister — brilliant geneticist Macy — whom their mother never told them existed. The emotional stress takes itstoll and the girls begin to exhibit impossible new abilities. An explanation comes from an unexpected place: the new chair of the women’s studies department. Harry Greenwood reveals that the three are powerful witches, and he is their whitelighter, there to advise and guide them as they battle dark forces.”
19. Ashley Garcia, Genius In Love
Available on Netflix | 2 Seasons
“Teenage robotics engineer and rocket scientist Ashley Garcia moves across the country to work for NASA and live with her uncle, a high school football coach.”
20. Outlander
Available on Amazon Prime | Renewed for season 7
“After serving as a British Army nurse in World War II, Claire Randall is enjoying a second honeymoon in Scotland with husband Frank, an MI6 officer looking forward to a new career as an Oxford historian. Suddenly, Claire is transported to 1743 and into a mysterious world where her freedom and life are threatened. To survive, she marries Jamie Fraser, a strapping Scots warrior with a complicated past and a disarming sense of humor. A passionate relationship ensues, and Claire is caught between two vastly different men in two inharmonious lives. `Outlander’ is adapted from the best-selling books by Diana Gabaldon.”
21. Fate The Winx Saga
Available on Netflix | Renewed for season 2
“Fairies attend a magical boarding school in the Otherworld, where they must learn to master their magical powers while navigating love, rivalries, and the monsters that threaten their very existence.”
22. Chilling Adventures Of Sabrina
Available on Netflix | 3 Seasons
“This adaptation of the “Sabrina the Teenage Witch” tale is a dark coming-of-age story that traffics in horror and the occult. In the reimagined origin story, Sabrina Spellman wrestles to reconcile her dual nature — half-witch, half-mortal — while standing against the evil forces that threaten her, her family — including aunts Hilda and Zelda — and the daylight world humans inhabit. Kiernan Shipka (“Mad Men”) leads the cast in the titular role of the show that is based on a comic series of the same name.”
23. House Of Anubis
Available on Amazon Prime | 3 Seasons
“Welcome to Anubis House Boarding School in Britain, where everything is not as it seems. Beneath the façade of classrooms exists a quest amongst students, faculty, and interlopers to find a hidden treasure that can grant full immortality to its discoverer!”
Was there a cozy tv show you were expecting to see on this list that I didn’t include? Leave a comment so I can check it out!
Credit: All descriptions are pulled and quoted from the show’s listing on Google/IMDB.