Sure, Star Trek is pretty ubiquitous in the streaming world—the original series, as well as Star Treks: The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, and Voyager are all available on Netflix, Hulu, and Prime Video—but if you are a fan of the franchise, Paramount+ is still going to be the way to go.

Yes, you’ll get all four of those shows, of course (plus Enterprise, but why would you want that?), and the vintage animated series, but this is the only place to go to see every season of the more recent spinoffs: Star Trek: Discovery, Picard, and Lower Decks. Plus, at launch, you can also screen four of the 13 big-screen voyages (including the time travel ones—well, those with the whales and the Borg, anyway)—but because all of the Trek films are from Paramount, it seems safe to say that the rest will eventually join the service, once their current streaming runs on other platforms have elapsed. Stream long and prosper.

Thanks to WandaVision, or maybe the need for something to stream in the background while you slog through another endless day of work-from-home solitude, vintage sitcoms are more vital than ever—and Paramount+ has a bunch of good ones.

From oldies like I Love Lucy; to Nick at Night staples The Brady Bunch and Happy Days; to ‘80s mega-hits (Taxi, Cheers, Family Ties), to ‘90s favorites (Sister, Sister and Frasier and, uh, Wings), you can seal yourself in a laugh track bubble and never emerge.

Why watch new dramas you might like when you can numb your brain with endless repeats of comfort TV you already know you like? It’s 2021; who needs the stress of not knowing what is going to happen on a TV show? Whether you’re watching The Love Boat, or Beauty and the Beast, or Beverly Hills 90210, or Melrose Place, or vintage Macgyver and Hawaii Five-O, or one of a million crime scene investigations from Las Vegas to Miami, you need never be surprised again.

Though a bit past its prime, Comedy Central has had an outsized impact on TV comedy, but because I haven’t paid for cable in ... several decades, I’ve had some trouble keeping up with all the shows I used to love/have caught sporadically/have heard are great. And because I could especially use a laugh right now, it’s nice to have one place where I can go to revisit Reno: 911, Strangers With Candy, and Broad City, see if Detroiters is worth the hype, and maybe finally find out if Chappelle’s Show holds up.

I’m too old to have watched SpongeBob growing up, but I had already tuned into its particular brand of wholesome surreality long before it became recognized as one of the internet’s richest meme veins. Whether you’re a well-barnacled fan or a newcomer living in a state with legal cannabis, you can dive in deep on Paramount+, which offers 11 seasons’ worth of episodes, plus a new movie and a CGI prequel, Kamp Koral: SpongeBob’s Under Years.

Beyond SpongeBob, Paramount+’s Nickelodeon hub is going to be a popular one in my home, not only because I have two kids are obsessed with newer fare like Strawberry Shortcake and The Loud House, but because it’s where I will go to indulge in a heaping spoonful of nostalgia from the likes of Clarissa Explains It All, Doug, Rocko’s Modern Life, Ren & Stimpy, and, god bless, Double Dare. These shows probably don’t hold up. I don’t care.

Like the rest of America, I was extremely invested in Survivor—TV’s first true reality phenomenon—from roughly 2000-2003. Then I mostly forgot it existed altogether, but it appears to have kept on just fine without me: There are 40 seasons streaming on Paramount+, and I bet watching them in succession could teach you a lot about the evolution of the genre. (Have they finally started to learn to make fire before they get to the island?)

I will always stan Bob Barker (have your pets spayed or neutered!), but at its core, The Price Is Right is still an excellent game show, even when Drew Carey is hosting it. I can’t manage to tune in to over-the-air digital signals, and chances are slim I’m available whenever the show airs anyway, so I can appreciate the fact that there are 68 episodes of the current season (and counting!) available whenever I need to distract myself wondering which is more expensive, a jar of spaghetti sauce or a box of granola bars.

When I was a kid, I could never figure out when Beavis & Butthead was going to be on, and I wasn’t strictly allowed to be watching it anyway. I still have the punchlines to sketches from The State rolling around inside my brain. And I once paid a slightly obscene amount of money to own Æon Flux on DVD. Now, all of these MTV staples are available on Paramount+, along with a ton more, from Daria, to RuPaul’s Drag Race, to many (but not all) seasons of The Real World, to many more culturally ruinous reality shows (The Hills, Jersey Shore) I judge harshly probably only because I have never risked watching them and getting sucked in.

I recognize that David Lynch in general, and Twin Peaks in particular, are acquired tastes. And that the show is 30 years old now, and that TV has come a long way. But dammit, I don’t care: I still revel in every moment of the weirdness that abounds when Special Agent Dale Cooper arrives in that hermetically sealed Washington logging town. Plus, if you don’t watch the original, you have even slimmer hopes of puzzling your way out of the mindfuck that is 2017's Twin Peaks: The Return, and that would be a shame (granted, you’ll need to stream elsewhere for that). Grab a slice of cherry pie and a damn fine cup of coffee, and dig in.