TQ's Year of TV (2024)

It's an honor just to get watched

Previous Years:
2023 / 2022 / 2021

2020 / 2019 / 2018

2017 / 2016 / 2015 

2014 LT / 2014 NLT

2013 / 2012 / 2011

Best TV Show That Is Seriously Great:

Presumed Innocent (Apple) 
Runner-up: Conan O'Brien Must Go (Max)

PI wins because I remembered the 1990 movie (the one with Harrison Ford) based on the same book and was still very captivated. I'm told - for "Taylor Swift Reasons" - one's not to like Jake Gyllenhaal. JG does a great job of embodying a character you know should be hated but also kinda understand why people could be attracted.

Meanwhile, more of unbridled, unshackled by networks, Conan!

Best TV Show That Has Recently Completed / All Seasons Watch Recommend:

What We Do In The Shadows (FX / Hulu) 

Runner-up: English Teacher (Hulu) 

I've been saying WWDITS is the "best comedy currently running" and now it's gone.

Meanwhile, if you know you know... I don't think ET is getting a second season.

Best Comedy Still Running:

Hacks (Max) 
Runner-up: Girls5eva (Netflix)

It's really tough to "be funny showing funny" but Hacks does it.

Meanwhile, I just hope we get more songs from Girls5eva.

Best Shelter In Place (one-day-marathon) Show:

Mr. McMahon (Netflix) 
Runner-up: Baby Reindeer (Netflix)

My wife will tell you that MM is enjoyable with zero pro wrestling or context knowledge.

Meanwhile, I am not recommending BR, but it is a high quality show that you will never want to watch again.

Best TV Show That Is Bonkers:

John Mulaney Presents: Everybody's in L.A. (Netflix)

Runner-up: The Boys (Amazon)

Mulaney created the ultimate "you had to be there" show.

Meanwhile, The Boys may appear less bonkers because the world is becoming more bonkers.

Best TV Show That Needs To Get Resurrected ASAP:

The Day of the Jackal (Peacock)

Runner-up: Monarch: Legacy of Monsters (Apple)

I can't get enough of any show about a highly skilled assassin that also has multiple Radiohead songs in its soundtrack.

Meanwhile, M:LoM is likely the best show on Apple you're not watching.

Best Limited-Run Anthology Series:

Disclaimer (Apple)

Runner-up: Fargo (FX)

Disclaimer is almost in Baby Reindeer territory in how it will catch you off-guard in the worst way, but unlike BR - I recommend watching it..

Meanwhile, Fargo is GONNA FARGO and we all love it.

WHAT ELSE IS ON

• Most over-rated: The Morning Show (Apple)
• Most over-hyped, but still good: The Penguin (Max)
• I can't quit you, but you're getting worse every time: Love Is Blind (Netflix)
• I think I have quit you because you got worse every time: Cobra Kai (Netflix)
• Honorary Distopian Future, thus I must watch: Silo (Apple)
• Honorary "I'm still very good" Premise, thus I'll always watch: True Detective: Night Country (Max)
• Too Much Intellectual Property, Star Wars Division: The Acolyte (Disney)
• Too Much Intellectual Property, Marvel Division: Agatha All Along (Disney)
• Episode, you know which one, of the year: The Bear (Hulu)
• Dadcore Award of the year: Reacher (Amazon)
• Johnny-Come-Lately Award for show from a prior year that I watched late: Hijack (Apple)
• Reality-show Adjacent Award for Competition: AMERICA'S SWEETHEARTS: Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders (Netflix)
• Spousal Duty watch because your wife has an inexplicable and undying lovecrush on the seemingly very sexy Ray Romano: No Good Deed (Netflix)
• Best show to watch on airplane because it's subtitled and others can enjoy: Shōgun (Hulu)
• The show I kinda liked but don't know if anybody who didn't read the book would like: Dark Matter (Apple)
• The show that's impossible for me to like because I didn't read the book: Dune Prophecy (Max)
• I quit but wish I was smarter enough to enjoy: 3 Body Problem (Netflix)
• Legal system reconciliation plea of the year: Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story (Netflix)

STILL IN THE QUEUE:

Man on the Inside (Netflix)

Black Doves (Netflix)

Bad Monkey (Apple)

Mr and Mrs Smith (Amazon)

Only Murders In The Building (Hulu)

Say Nothing (FX / Hulu)

The Old Man (Hulu)

Poker Face (Peacock)

Tokyo Vice (Max)

Industry (Max)

Ripley (Netflix)

House of the Dragon (Max)

Somebody Somewhere (Max)

The Diplomat (Netflix)

Mrs. Davis (Peacock)

See it soon,
TQ