The aim is to terrorize the civilian population and turn them against the Ukrainian military and government, forcing them to sue for peace with Moscow.

Hasn’t this famously backfired whenever it was attempted?

Probably not what you’re looking for, but it just occured to me that Ted Lasso might be the closest modern show to this sort of cosy/wholesome British sitcom.

Also if you want something really on the nose, I seem to remember enjoying Rev:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rev._(TV_series)

Edit: bonus recommendation for The Royle Family

Can we move the front line to the Mason-Dixon line?

I would try:

• see if you can get logs of the resume process
• suspend from a text VT and see if that changes the behaviour
• boot into single user mode and try suspend from there
• boot an older LTS or a newer test kernel and see if it has the same problem