It’s fair to say I watched a lot of TV this year. There are always the usual network series (Law & Order, The Amazing Race, Survivor, NCIS, Grey’s Anatomy, The Rookie, Blue Bloods) watched weekly. I finished my rewatch of Fringe at the beginning of the year followed by a second viewing of all seven seasons of The Shield. I also binged through the existing seasons of Manifest in preparation for the final season, which was split into two halves, the final half yet to come.
PBS had a few good things on offer: Around the World in Eighty Days, the second season of All Creatures Great and Small, Call the Midwife and the cute crime series Miss Scarlet and the Duke. Some long-running series came to an end: This Is Us, Ozark, Better Call Saul, Killing Eve, The Good Fight, Dead to Me. I finally got around to watching the final season of Homeland, too. Two returning series I’ve always enjoyed are CSI and Criminal Minds.
Lots of British and international crime series, including Why Didn’t They Ask Evans?, Borgen, Shetland, Karen Pirie, Grace, Redemption, Sherwood, Deadwater Fell, Deadwind, Borderliner, Miss Sherlock, Good Morning, Verônica and Three Pines.
I started Rings of Power but haven’t gotten beyond the first episode yet. I also need to finish the final season of Westworld before it gets pulled from HBO. We gave up on Season 5 of The Crown after only a couple of episodes and I quit Dahmer after one episode, too. I’ll probably watch The Peripheral over the course of the next week, now that I’m caught up on The White Lotus. I really liked Archive 81, but there won’t be a second season so that’s a shame.
While I enjoyed Andor and the latest season of The Orville and all the Star Treks, none of them were quite as good as the shows that made my top 12 list, which follows—again, in chronological order, not in order of preference.
- Yellowjackets (Showtime)
- From (Epix)
- Severance (Apple TV+)
- Barry (HBO Max)
- 1883 (Paramount+)
- The Old Man (Hulu)
- The Bear (Hulu)
- Black Bird (Apple TV+)
- Kleo (Netflix)
- The Patient (Hulu)
- Bad Sisters (Apple TV+)
- 1899 (Netflix)
