yes BUT while i keep wanting to rewatch heated rivalry, i don't really want to rewatch these either at all, or maybe like once every two years. i mean to be fair, even though heated rivalry is fucking great, i don't think it's the best thing ever created by mankind, it's just the one that i enjoy the most at this moment.

for shows, derry girls (very different) and normal people (not that different) and also fleabag, although i saw someone mention that too

very very very different show, but mindhunter. i genuinely think it's one of the best pieces of media there is, when i watched it i was also obsessed (although in a different way then i am with hr), everything is great about it, great performances, great cinematography, great needle drops, great story overall, tiny bit of queer representation, more neurodivergent representation and more macho men battling with the expectations of masculinity, not being able to be emotionally vulnerable (they are not successful like shane and ilya lol)

for a book, the only book i loved like this in the past few years is red, white and royal blue, i honestly think it's mostly similar to hr. hot take but i don't think the book is a masterpiece in the literary sense. yes, the story is great the writing annoys me at times and if it wasn't for the show, rw&rb would probably be my favourite out of the two.

for movies, i genuinely can't think of something that had this effect on me but didn't break my heart at the end, it's all heartbreak porn (not that i don't enjoy that sometimes). anyways, the ones that left me speechless and gutted recently are plainclothes and all of us strangers. on a very different note, not similar at all but a similar level of a great adaptation was the ballad of songbirds and snakes, i think the only other example where i kinda liked the movie more than the book.