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Behold my super Senerio-esque list, except I’m a cis straight dude with no excuses except these shows were great. Since 2020 managed to make my 2019 favorite Chernobyl look like a feel-good story about how a nation can pull together to overcome existential doom, and there’s a bunch of anxiety and depression issues in my household, I was making a very conscious choice to search out shows that would be uplifting. Which meant pretty much blazing through all the great kid focused shows that have been coming out lately. Thank goodness there’s so many of them. Some honorable mentions that weren’t quite good enough or just managed to barely miss being in 2020: The Expanse, Doom Patrol, Cobra Kai, and The Boys. 10- Lovecraft Country The promise and ambition this show wrestles around with makes it worth it, but a lot of it does bog down with some pretty pulpy plot contrivances that take away from all the good things the cast and crew are doing. When they’re going for the weird and wild though, it’s really great. 9- Rapunzel's Tangled Adventure Lots of fun, catchy songs, and manages to frolic through some rather dark themes at points. 8- Harley Quinn It’s a cartoon for adults with all the swears! Hell yeah! It’s also really good and makes excellent use of some z-list DC characters like Kite Man. 7-Star Trek: Lower Decks Just like this was the best scene of TNG and The Voyage Home is (almost) the best trek movie, Lower Decks is the best Star Trek in ages. 6- Primal One of many shows on my list about the power of friendship! And in this case, also about rivers of blood and rage. Primal walks the tightrope of fantastic design, storytelling, and worldbuilding all without needing the safety net of dialogue. 5- The Mandalorian Despite being plotted like a tabletop rpg run by some nerds really into hitting those nostalgia notes, the execution and heart of this show is just too good to ignore. It’s nice to know Star Wars can still be great. 4- The Owl House This show is goofy, has some real wit to it, and even makes time to show how loving dumb a golden snitch is in any sorts of sports ball design by putting its protagonists on the losing side of it  3- Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts: In an age when it feels like half of television is set in a grim and gritty post-apocalypse, Kipo spins the world after the collapse of humanity into something really magical. Plus Karen Fukuhara gets to lead with that voice the whole time. 2- Hilda: Hilda is about as warm a blanket of a show you could ever hope to find to cuddle up to. Pretty amazing discipline in its use of color palette too that I wish more animated shows would take a lesson from. 1- She-ra and the Princesses of Power: This show is unabashedly pastels and rainbows, and I’m loving here for it. It takes some time setting up its large cast and getting around to its real stakes, but then the emotional rollercoaster it does with all that preamble is really quite stunning. It turns out you can solve all sorts of problems with the power of friendship and have those triumphs feel earned rather than contrived. Or even plan out satisfying character arcs that unfold across seasons. Who knew? Still can’t get over how good this turned out to be. edited because I like every other poster in this thread forgot about Lower Decks Hobbes fucked around with this message at 17:10 on Jan 15, 2021 |
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Lurdiak posted:What!!! They said it was coming in 2021! Haha. Also I had to edit my list because I forgot about Lower Decks somehow.
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On the advice of this thread I am now watching Ted Lasso and I am sad I didn't watch it in time to put it on my list. Next up, Good Lord Bird and then The Queen's Gambit maybe? Thanks goons! edit: thanks Looten Plunder too!
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