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Honorable Mentions: Poker Face: Wanted to watch this to see if it would bump my 'whodunit' on my list proper, but realized I'm not going to be able to finish and properly rank it in time, which is unfortunate. I'm a sucker for the genre and this has had high praise, I've just been ignoring it because Peacock lol The Curse: I don't know where to rank this show. Was it the best show I watched in 2023? Was it the worst? Who loving knows, but there was enough great TV I watched that making a spot for it on the top 10 feels bad Reservation Dogs: Really liked every season of this show, but it never quite clicked for me such that I loved it instead. This is entirely a me issue, but there are only so many flowers to give around and in a weaker year, I'd throw it on the list just to have it on there Such Brave Girls: Nice little ditty of a comedy that came out right at the end of the year, check it out if you missed it 10. Barry: Barry to me feels like a show that suffered tremendously due to COVID. I want to know what changed in the rewrites they made when they couldn't shoot season 3, because it feels like Hader got too wrapped up reading dumbass opinions on Reddit about how Barry is a cool dude just like Walter White and then spelled it out in crayon that he sucks. I bet the time skip doesn't happen in that universe and we get something looser thematically but tighter narratively. Maybe I'm just being harsh on it because Barry aired right after Succession, a show that's also on this list but with maybe the greatest final season of a show ever. 9. The Bear: Perhaps another controversially low position, but The Bear loses a lot of spots on my list because of one single issue: Claire. Giving Carmy a one-dimensional girlfriend was such a bad play in my book. Her one purpose in the entire season seems to be to exist, so that in the finale Carmy can blow up at her while locked in the walk-in. Fishes and Forks were some of the greatest episodes of TV of all time, but overall the season was mired by the fact that they didn't give her any defining traits besides "completing a residency." I'm guessing season 3 will rectify this and we'll get an episode solely from her perspective, but that episode should have existed in this season. 8. The Other Two: Any show with an episode called "Brooke Drives an Armpit Across America" deserves a spot on my top 10. 7. I Think You Should Leave With Tim Robinson: I think we should be able to post a little porn on Something Awful. 6. The Afterparty: Sad to hear season 2 is the last of this show; this show deserved way more attention than it ended up getting. Perhaps it's a blessing that I didn't watch Poker Face since I might be the only person who ranks The Afterparty on their list, especially above some critical darlings. But, gently caress it - this show was just incredible fun from a viewing perspective, being kept in the dark on both the killer and what genre would be parodied in each episode. Hannah's episode being a pastiche of Wes Anderson made me hit some weird state of nirvana where I was just glued to my set the whole episode. Overall, it may have been a step down from the first season but both were excellent IMO. 5. Party Down: A double miracle: Party Down came back and it was like it never left in the first place. Its only sin was missing Lizzy Caplan for the most part, but I don't think she would have gotten the show any higher on my list if different. Also the only good use of COVID narratively ever. 4. Fargo: A return to form, I'm very glad another good season of this show was made. Who knew Anton Chigurh would be just as great of a character if he showed up in Fargo? The entire cast killed it but I think Juno Temple was insanely impressive as Dot considering I hate Keeley in Ted Lasso. 3. How to With John Wilson: John is my loving boy and has supplanted Nathan Fielder in my parasocial friend group. Crying at the fact that HBO concluded so many great shows last year but this stung the most. Jesus loving Christ that guy who cut off his dick and balls was the most nuts least nuts thing I've ever heard about 2. Succession: If you had told me at the beginning of 2023 that neither this nor Barry would be in my top spot, I wouldn't believe you. I still barely believe it because this season was perfection. Sometimes I just randomly watch the boardroom scene from the final episode just to be in total awe again. Masterpiece is the only word to describe it. 1. Beef: I cannot believe how good this show was, it had everything: laughs, shocks, poignant and effortlessly interwoven themes of race and class, gently caress man. Jordan getting smashed to death by the door to her safe room was one of the most gruesome things I've seen since the Drive elevator scene. And, honestly, I even liked the final episode, a common criticism I've seen levied against the show. Yes, they could have called it quits at episode 9, but it largely feels like it DOES end there. Episode 10 is more of a coda - if they ended it entirely the episode before, then it would have worked even worse being the beginning of season 2. The final shot with Smashing Pumpkins playing is also too good to not exist. If future seasons even hold a candle to this, Beef might not just be my favorite show of 2023, but of all time.
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Heads up, you put the wrong quote here. Otherwise, nice job! E: Oh, I also think it should be 27 points based on your table at the end and the fact that it wasn't tied with How to. demostars fucked around with this message at 23:23 on Feb 22, 2024 |
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Looten Plunder posted:Sorry. I suffer from Narcolepsy and hadn't taken my meds yesterday and I was having a bit of an episode around that point and probably screwed up my cut'n'pastes. I'll sort it out tonight. Haha it’s cool, I only noticed because it was my quote reused from the John Wilson review I did. Glad my quote made it in for The Other Two as well!
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