Films and TV shows that feel like Good News by Mac Miller
A poignant, exhausted yet tender exhale from someone carrying the weight of their own mind while searching for a shred of peace.
- BoJack Horseman (2014): It captures the exact same bittersweet haze of trying to outrun your own self-destructive cycles while everyone just wants you to be okay.
- Paterson (2016): It shares the song's gentle, observational rhythm and finds quiet beauty in the mundane routines of daily life.
- Her (2013): The melancholic near-future aesthetics and warm, lonely color palette mirror the introspective sadness of the song.
- Atlanta (2016): It deeply understands the surreal, isolating weight of modern fame and the strange mental spaces artists inhabit.
- The Truman Show (1998): It reflects the song's longing to escape the fishbowl of public expectation and simply find some genuine peace.
- Midnight in Paris (2011): It captures that nostalgic, slightly melancholic yearning to transcend the current moment for somewhere easier on the soul.
- Before Sunset (2004): The conversational vulnerability and soft, lingering sadness mirror the intimate confessions of the track.
- The Florida Project (2017): It balances a hazy, golden-hour aesthetic with the underlying heavy reality of struggling just to get by.
