Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Photos Courtesy of Networks When TV critics compose their lists of the ten best TV shows of the year, what they’re really doing is identifying a group of breakthrough cases — not in the COVID-19 sense, but rather a creative one: Networks and streaming platforms are so crowded with viewing options that a series needs to do something daring, unusual, or too compelling to be ignored in order to really stand out. If it can pull off all three, even better.
8. The Underground Railroad Emmy Award voters have been known to make some misguided choices, so it shouldn’t be surprising when it happens. And yet I remain baffled by the fact that Barry Jenkins did not win an Emmy this year for directing The Underground Railroad, one of the most purposeful, ambitious visual works to appear on our televisions in 2021.
4. WandaVision As this year comes to a close, some of us may be feeling a bit of MCU fatigue. But think back to the beginning of this year and the spark of joy WandaVision ignited when it arrived on Disney+. As the first Marvel series on the platform, it seemed poised to be a more episodically driven Xerox of a Marvel movie. Under the supervision of showrunner Jac Schaefer, there was a slight taste of the usual Marvel. The scenes set within S.W.O.R.D.
9. You After two seasons of promising but messy stalker drama, the third season of Netflix’s You hits with full force. With more complex motivations and more effective narrative foils, Penn Badgley’s Joe Goldberg finally gets an exterior fictional world to match the nightmare palace inside his brain. Serial killer Mr. and Mrs.
5. All Creatures Great and Small There is no misstep in the entire first season of All Creatures Great and Small. Not a one. The BBC/PBS Masterpiece adaptation of James Herriott’s rural veterinary books was basically guaranteed to be a nice time, at the very least; the book series is an unmatched accomplishment in the territory of sentimentality anchored by the inexorable physical realities of life. Still, it is rare to find an adaptation quite this exquisite.
1. Station Eleven For so many reasons, Station Eleven should be a disaster. It is an adaptation of a pandemic novel at a time of peak pandemic exhaustion. It skips around a timeline, uninterested in signposting its way through the complicated, oblique connections between characters. It’s laden with metaphor, in a way that could easily feel overbearing.
6. For All Mankind Joel Kinnaman’s anguished face is very appealing to me, and I still repeat “Hey yo, Linden!” every time he appears on screen in For All Mankind, a full decade after The Killing. But my significant interest in the former Stephen Holder is not solely what lands For All Mankind on this list; instead, the series’ full-throttle immersion into its alternate-history experimentation is the deserving factor.
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