📺 The Repair Shop
this isn't so much a review as it is Reasons Why This is Ideal Comfort Watching
If the object belongs to a relative or friend, the team (either the host or the craftspeople themselves) always ask the loved one's name and remember it later. And they always say “thank you for trusting us with it”
The care they take with paintings/toys/sculptures/instruments etc has a big similarity to work. People trust us in times of great vulnerability – we do drastic things sometimes – and we always hope they come out better than the person who came in.