My favorite television of the past year

the-expanse

In order that I have enjoyed shows in the past year:

  1. The Expanse. A new space opera. The best since BSG, and maybe only second to that overall.
  2. Please Like Me, Season 2. Funniest show ever about a young gay man facing rejection, death, and mental illness. All the usual ingredients of comedy.
  3. Homeland Season 5. As a supposedly liberal intellectual I think I’m supposed to not like this show. But I do. Probably the best season since the first.
  4. Man in the High Castle. From the Phillip K Dick novel, about an alternate history where the Nazis and Japanese win WWII.
  5. Jessica Jones. Emotionally disturbed superheroes and villains. The best take on the genre.

I have yet to watch Narcos but I plan to. The only people who don’t seem to like this are Colombians, who think they got the history right but are angry that Escobar is played by a Brazilian.

What do you recommend?

15 Responses

  10. Wot no Nordic noir? I thought Narcos was dire – endless narrative voiceover such a lazy dramatic technique. Quite enjoying Deutschland 83 – you got it over there?

  11. I am not a native Spanish speaker, but Escobar’s accent is really distracting if you speak Spanish. Imagine if some famous American, let’s say Steve Jobs, was played by somebody who looked just like him but spoke English a thick Spanish accent. Most people would find it hard to watch.

  12. Yes, Narcos!
    Also, Mr. Robot, Orphan Black, The Americans and BBC miniseries of Agatha Christie’s ‘And Then There Were None’ (with the assumption you’ve watched House of Cards).