The 6-Season Sitcom You Slept On Just Hit Netflix

March is turning into a little sitcom victory lap. Prime Video just dropped a stack of classics on March 25, and now Netflix is countering with a comfort-watch that most people ignored the first time around: every season of Mike & Molly, finally landing after a weird month-long delay from its original February target.

Mike & Molly finally hits Netflix

Chuck Lorre has the "king of sitcoms" rep for a reason. He gave TV The Big Bang Theory and Mom, and in 2010 he launched Mike & Molly on CBS. It ran six seasons and 127 episodes, quietly doing its thing while his louder hits soaked up the attention. All of it is now on Netflix as of March 26.

What the show actually is (and why it works)

It is a straight-up multi-cam with a laugh track, but it plays warmer and more grounded than the stereotype. The setup: Chicago cop Mike Biggs (Billy Gardell) and schoolteacher Molly Flynn (Melissa McCarthy, pre-megafame) meet at an Overeaters Anonymous meeting, fall for each other, and then deal with everything that comes next — work, family, marriage, the small everyday stuff you build a life out of.

Early marketing leaned way too hard on fat jokes. The show itself eventually moved past that and settled into affectionate, character-first storytelling. Gardell and McCarthy have easy chemistry, the tone is cozy, low-stakes, and very rewatchable, and the series sticks the landing. Season 6 has a 100% critics score and an 83% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes, and the finale actually feels like a finale.

A quick March sitcom moment

If you want to lean all the way in: Prime Video just added All in the Family, Married... With Children, and Who's the Boss? on March 25. Netflix arriving with a 2010s comfort-sitcom the very next day is a nice one-two for anyone chasing laughs that go down easy.

Also new on Netflix in March

Beyond Mike & Molly, Netflix says the March lineup includes a few eyebrow-raisers and some solid library adds. Here is what they are touting, plus what's still to come this month:

• Series: Steven Spielberg's The Dinosaurs; One Piece Season 2; the Duffer Brothers ' new show Something Very Bad Is Going to Happen.
• Movies: Deepwater Horizon; The Lego Movie; Matilda; Zombieland; Hotel Mumbai; Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale.
• Still ahead: BTS: THE RETURN on March 27; Anemone on March 28; and the return of the sports doc series Untold on March 31.

Yes, that is how the titles are being listed. If a couple of them make you squint, same.

If you skipped Mike & Molly during its 2010–2016 CBS run, this is an easy catch-up. Start with the OA meet-cute in the pilot and see if you do not accidentally burn through three seasons before you realize it.