Clockwise from top left: Mary Elizabeth Winstead in “BrainDead”; Cuba Gooding Jr. in “The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story”; Phoebe Waller-Bridge in “Fleabag”; Donald Glover in “Atlanta”; Michaela Coel in “Chewing Gum”; and Forrest Pusey and Sofia Pavone in “Stan Against Evil.” Michael Parmelee/CBS; Byron Cohen/FX; Amazon; Quantrell D. Colbert/FX; Netflix; Kim Simms/IFC
2016 The Best TV Shows - Year-end records are stories: They come clean by lying. The possibility that a pundit can observe all the TV there is today, not to mention disengage the 10 best works among uncontrollably unique types, is a fiction. However, play alongside it, and you enlighten a bigger story concerning what mattered that year and why.
To whittle this story down to 10 titles required some little swindles. I forgot ESPN's brilliant narrative "O.J.: Made in America" since this distribution inspected it as a film. "Stop and Catch Fire" is as astounding as when I included it in 2015; I knock it this year to make room. (However I rehashed "The Americans," "Straightforward" and "Correct." Life is unjustifiable.)
I didn't number my rundown. (The best show of the year, in case you're asking, was "Atlanta," yet past that the request would have been discretionary.) An enhanced "Better Call Saul" scarcely missed the cut, as did the best period of "Young ladies" since its first. There are arrangement I couldn't exactly legitimize putting on this rundown yet were insane engaging, similar to "More abnormal Things."
What remains is a sampler of TV as bewildering and upset as the year we've quite recently survived. We live in fascinating circumstances, and we likewise get the opportunity to watch them. —
To whittle this story down to 10 titles required some little swindles. I forgot ESPN's brilliant narrative "O.J.: Made in America" since this distribution inspected it as a film. "Stop and Catch Fire" is as astounding as when I included it in 2015; I knock it this year to make room. (However I rehashed "The Americans," "Straightforward" and "Correct." Life is unjustifiable.)
I didn't number my rundown. (The best show of the year, in case you're asking, was "Atlanta," yet past that the request would have been discretionary.) An enhanced "Better Call Saul" scarcely missed the cut, as did the best period of "Young ladies" since its first. There are arrangement I couldn't exactly legitimize putting on this rundown yet were insane engaging, similar to "More abnormal Things."
What remains is a sampler of TV as bewildering and upset as the year we've quite recently survived. We live in fascinating circumstances, and we likewise get the opportunity to watch them. —
O.J.: Made in America (Two Astonishing Views of O.J. Simpson and His Trial)
Cuba Gooding Jr., left, as O.J. Simpson and Courtney B. Vance as Johnnie Cochran in “The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story.” Credit Prashant Gupta/FX
Reviewed it As a film ( Review: ‘O.J.: Made in America,’ an Unflinching Take on His Rise and Fall )
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| O. J. Simpson waving at fans in Buffalo. Credit M. Osterreicher/ESPN Films |
I Included it in 2015
James Poniewozik
Was 2015 the best TV year ever? It was, at least, the most TV year ever. There are more original shows every year. Choosing 10 shows annually, then, becomes a crueler and crueler process. As it should be. A list only means something to the extent that it leaves something off. It should hurt. But inevitably, any best TV show list will omit some of what was best about TV.
Was 2015 the best TV year ever? It was, at least, the most TV year ever. There are more original shows every year. Choosing 10 shows annually, then, becomes a crueler and crueler process. As it should be. A list only means something to the extent that it leaves something off. It should hurt. But inevitably, any best TV show list will omit some of what was best about TV.
Better Call Saul (Review: ‘Better Call Saul,’ Quirky and Absorbing in Season Opener)
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| Bob Odenkirk in “Better Call Saul.” Credit Ursula Coyote/Sony Pictures Television, via AMC |
Season 2 of “Better Call Saul” begins where Season 1 did: in purgatory, which happens to be a Cinnabon in Omaha. Saul Goodman (Bob Odenkirk), once Walter White’s skeevy lawyer, relocated there to save his skin after the bloody denouement of “Breaking Bad.” Like last year’s opening sequence, it’s a lovely, mournful short film, scored this time to the country standard “Funny How Time Slips Away.”
The song is a curious choice, because “Better Call Saul” does anything but let time slip away. It grabs on to it, jumping backward to 2002, when Saul was Jimmy McGill, a small-time con artist trying to go straight as an attorney in Albuquerque. It slows time down, stretches out key moments like taffy, as if Saul, in his sugar-glazed prison, were holding his past up to the light, trying to find the exact spot where everything went wrong.
The song is a curious choice, because “Better Call Saul” does anything but let time slip away. It grabs on to it, jumping backward to 2002, when Saul was Jimmy McGill, a small-time con artist trying to go straight as an attorney in Albuquerque. It slows time down, stretches out key moments like taffy, as if Saul, in his sugar-glazed prison, were holding his past up to the light, trying to find the exact spot where everything went wrong.
Girls ( You Don’t Like the Girls in ‘Girls’? That’s Its Genius)
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| Alex Karpovsky and Lena Dunham in the “Hello Kitty” episode of “Girls.” Credit Craig Blankenhorn/HBO |
Normally, you’d be confused. Why would HBO lower the curtain on Season 5 of “Girls” with two episodes on Sunday rather than the usual one at a time? Why not give the show’s 10 episodes a full 10 weeks? But there are the mysteries. Then there are the realities.
And the presumable reality is that decks needed clearing and hatches needed battening for next weekend’s simultaneous resumption of “Game of Thrones,” “Veep” and “Silicon Valley” — and the Saturday unveiling of whatever this ultra-top-secret Beyoncé “Lemonade” thing is supposed to be. thks
And the presumable reality is that decks needed clearing and hatches needed battening for next weekend’s simultaneous resumption of “Game of Thrones,” “Veep” and “Silicon Valley” — and the Saturday unveiling of whatever this ultra-top-secret Beyoncé “Lemonade” thing is supposed to be. thks
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