Cozy, She Wrote

Cozy sure is a word that people use a lot nowadays. A “fair” assessment would be to say media is cozy if it evokes a feeling of comfort and lacks the kind of obstacles that more challenging fare provides. An “Extra Credit” assessment would be a lot less charitable, but we’ll spare you what you already know. Consider instead the website Goodreads, which is about as cozy as a viper’s nest, and the subgenre that is cozy literature. Sound fun? No? Well, too bad, that’s what this episode is about. This week, Extra Credit refuses to consider coffee cozy.