Hey you. Yes, you.

Your stress is palpable. I can feel it through the screen. This world, our world, is turning too quickly these days, and if you're anything like the rest of society, you're looking for something to bring you down to Earth again. Nothing that needs a prescription. Preferably nothing boozy. What if, instead, it was Bob Ross. A simple happy tree. A playful stroke of the brush.

With a new Bob Ross documentary on Netflix, Bob Ross: Happy Accidents, Betrayal, and Greed (yikes), you might be interested in where exactly you can find the more peaceful version of Bob Ross's legacy. And the good news is that Bob Ross's The Joy of Painting is one of the most accessible series you can find online. The bad news is, the documentary may have you asking if you want to stream it on Ross's official YouTube channel, owned by Bob Ross Inc.

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Because of the legal issues discussed at length in the documentary, the Ross family no longer owns the rights to Bob Ross's likeness or intellectual property. But because the internet is the digital Wild West, there are other options, like this one:

The trailer for the upcoming documentary landed last week (with a dark and menacing air of mystery). It is being produced in part by celebrity couple Ben Falcone and Melissa McCarthy, but whether you watch it now or later, it's going to conjure up enough good memories that you're going to want to watch it somewhere. Go ahead and get into it with this 10 hour loop of the theme song.

When you're chill and ready, there are, of course, the more straightforward ways to watch it. The controlling members of Bob Ross Inc. have uploaded his work on YouTube under an official channel channel bearing his name. Every episode.

Or if you like to complicate things, you can also find the series on Amazon Prime (via IMDb TV) as well as Hulu. So go forth. Calm your nerves. Challenge yourself by painting a nice moonscape, perhaps, while mulling over the ethical questions of making money off an artist's work once he's dead and you control his estate. This world and its existential questions can't break us. Not with Bob at our fingertips.

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