I’m not the biggest television guy, so if you want to ream me for excluding your favorite show off of this list, just know there’s at least a 92% chance I just haven’t seen it. I rarely binge things. Anyway, since we’re in full on ‘best of’ and ‘recap’ season, I figured I’d sit down and share my favorite shows that I watched this year.
The Best Shows I Watched This Year
9. Black Rabbit – The ending just goes from way too off-the-rails to tied up nice and neat with a bow on top for me. It completely took me out of the show. But, I still give them a ton of credit for episodes three through seven.
8. Peacemaker – Season 2 of Peacemaker really dug in and twisted the knife from an emotional standpoint, and I loved the way we really fleshed out the characters’ trauma, but man, that was one of the more “what the fuck?” endings in a show I’ve seen in awhile.
7. Untamed – It never really popped the way I thought it was going to pop, but it was a steady series led by a bristly Eric Bana.
6. Bad Monkey – Vince Vaughn is having fun with this one, and the series should live up to expectations for fans of Carl Hiaasen’s work.
5. Adolescence – It’s a hard watch, for sure, but it’s one of the most effective and impactful shows I’ve watched in quite some time.
4. Shrinking – The newest season of Shrinking really dug into the roots of our main characters’ traumas and that gave the show an emotional heft I wasn’t sure they could top from the first season. But, some of the dialogue is starting to err on the side of “sitcom.”
3. The Righteous Gemstones – It’s the most riotous comedy series in the last decade. They landed the plane on this series perfectly.
2. The Four Seasons – I mean, you get this cast together to deliver a heartfelt look at love in our mid-lives and you’ve already got a home run.
1. The Studio – One of the more original series to come out in recent years. It combines the frenetic and chaotic energy of the film industry with a solid sense of humor to create tension that is broken by a good laugh. I loved the pacing of it. I loved the acting in it.
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