![]() ![]() What’s the difference between these and the top? Well, not much. After that, I have a few who “ almost” made the top 10.I choose a particular episode for each show that I especially loved, just to spread the praise and maybe to give you more incentive to watch. The top ten are my ultimate favorites of the year: the ones I kept thinking about and revisiting and the ones that affected me beyond just entertaining me. ![]() ![]() I pretty much endorse every show I watch to some degree or another, so I like to include them all. After the video are my explanations for the following categories if you should want or need those explanations. There were small blessings throughout my 2020 and one of them was that good, caring, and sensible people still existed-in fictional programming, at least.Īs always, the following TV countdown video is a celebration of my favorite shows, with clips from nearly every new show I saw in 2020. I may feel a little more fondly towards these shows than I would in any other year, but I’m glad. Rather than remembering a vacation I took, or a holiday I celebrated, I remember those weeks I binged Better Things, those anxious early-pandemic Monday nights with HBO (#6 and #7), and which shows got me through the brief time in an apartment I hated ( We Are Who We Are and Harley Quinn, mostly). When I couldn’t do much else I could escape into the scenarios and communities present in the series listed below. In 2020, TV became a nightly refuge from a reality that was full of the very worst characters and TV tropes. There is a fair share of darkness in my favorite shows of 2020, but there are plenty of shows- Better Things, Ted Lasso, The Baby-Sitter’s Club-which I think became even more valuable to me because of the rare celebration of kindness, empathy, and generosity that these shows ultimately were. The genial, low-stakes world of that show became an attractive feature in numerous other shows throughout 2020. Speaking of Schitt’s Creek, I started January 2020 by quickly watching the remaining seasons I had yet to see, and then the final season. This is most notably true for Better Things, My Brilliant Friend, and Schitt’s Creek. There are a few new entries, which either were not featured before because I hadn’t seen them in time or I was years behind on viewing. The only holdovers from last year are PEN15 and BoJack Horseman. I enjoyed making another countdown video for my Top 20 (which comprise most of my Top, Almost, and Honorable Mentions below), and perhaps even more so because I got to feature so many new shows. The result is that this TV ranking is full of newbies and one-offs. 2020 had its similar changes, with expected seasons of shows like Succession, Pose, or GLOW unable to materialize or being canceled altogether. I know very little of what I will certainly watch this year. I suspect that 2021 will be the most unpredictable and strange Top TV list I will make to that point. Plus, any shows which I watched weekly (and there are fewer every year), provided a much-desired sense of structure to my weeks and months. TV provided a sense of familiarity and comfort when there was an abundance of things that felt unfamiliar and uncomfortable, to say the very least. What I know is this, and it is relevant to this pleasing annual tradition of mine: TV was good. I don’t know how to write “about 2020,” and frankly I don’t really want to.
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