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It’s finally time to get the countdown underway! I know you’re all excited for the top 25(ish), but first we’ve got to get through our honorable mentions! 111th place; 1 point Far North (TV3) For All Mankind (Apple TV+) Heartstopper (Netflix) Make Some Noise (Dropout) Renegade Neil (Disney+) Ronja the Robber’s Daughter (Netflix) Snowpiercer (AMC) Survivor (CBS) The Gentlemen (Netflix) 104th place; 2 points Bad Sisters (Apple TV+) Based on a True Story (Peacock) Dead Boy Detectives (Netflix) Lioness (Paramount+) Mary & George (Sky Atlantic) The Agency (Paramount+) The Sympathizer (HBO) 96th place; 3 points Deal or No Deal (Seven) King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard North American Tour (YouTube) Laid (Peacock) Monarch: Legacy of Monsters (Apple TV+) Star Trek: Discovery (Paramount+) The Great British Bake-Off (Channel 4) The Tithes (Warhammer TV) Wolf Hall (BBC One) 87th place; 4 points Alone (History) Boy Swallows Universe (Netflix) Conan O’Brien Must Go (Max) Dimension 20: Never Stop Blowing Up (Dropout) Ghosts (CBS) Hey! (YouTube) In the Know (Peacock) My Brilliant Friend (HBO) Tokyo Vice (Max) 79th place; 5 points American Sports Story: Aaron Hernandez (FX) Delicious in Dungeon (Tokyo MX) Disclaimer (Apple TV+) Inside No. 9 (BBC Two) Monsieur Spade (AMC) Mr. McMahon (Netflix) The Acolyte (Disney+) The Creep Tapes (Shudder/AMC+) 68th place; 6 points A Man on the Inside (Netflix) Dandadan (JNN) Grotesquerie (FX) Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story (Netflix) Mr Bates vs the Post Office (ITV) Pachinko (Apple TV+) Paris Olympics (NBC, I guess?) The Boys (Prime Video) The Devil’s Hour (Prime Video) True Detective: Night Country (HBO) We Are Lady Parts (Peacock/Channel 4) 58th place; 7 points Abbott Elementary (ABC) Expats (Prime Video) Invincible (Prime Video) Love Island USA (Peacock) Squid Game (Netflix) The Completely Made-Up Adventures of Dick Turpin (Apple TV+) The Girls on the Bus (Max) The Jinx (HBO) The Vince Staples Show (Netflix) Very Important People (Dropout) 51st place; 8 points Davey and Jonsie’s Locker (Hulu/Prime Video) Everybody’s in LA (Netflix) Fantasmas (HBO) Kaos (Netflix) Resident Alien (Syfy) Say Nothing (FX) Shrinking (Apple TV+) 43rd place; 9 points Batman: Caped Crusader (Prime Video) Bodkin (Netflix) Heartbreak High (Netflix) Skeleton Crew (Disney+) Somebody Somewhere (HBO) The Black Swan (NRK TV) The Franchise (HBO) The Traitors USA (Peacock) 40th place; 10 points Jenny Nicholson: The Spectacular Failure of the Star Wars Hotel (YouTube) On Cinema (HEI Network) Royal Crackers (Adult Swim) 38th place; 11 points Black Doves (Netflix) Masters of the Air (Apple TV+) 34th place; 12 points Curb Your Enthusiasm (HBO) Game Changer (Dropout) Manhunt (Apple TV+) The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power (Prime Video) 28th place; 13 points Arcane (Netflix) Bad Monkey (Apple TV+) From (MGM+) Only Murders in the Building (Hulu) Silo (Apple TV+) The Diplomat (Netflix) Gotta sting, seeing Game Changer fall just short of making it to the big countdown. I will say, of all the shows that fell shy, it had the most votes (4). Some other shows I’m shocked to see didn’t make the cut are Rings of Power, Silo, The Boys, Squid Game, and Arcane! Sorry to those shows, but we’ve got plenty more waiting to take their places! Arist fucked around with this message at 18:06 on Jan 26, 2025 |
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Time to start the top Chairman Capone posted:a solid adaptation of a solid modern SF classic Toxic Fart Syndrome posted:I was surprised by how much I enjoyed this  27. 3 BODY PROBLEM (NETFLIX) 15 POINTS, LISTED 5 TIMES, 2.8 AVG POINTS, SEASON 1, NEW SHOW And 3 Body Problem is our first contender knocked out of the running! It got a respectable 5 votes, though.
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Jan 26, 2025 18:05
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Next up, we have… a tie! Not that surprising, really (we have a lot of ties this year).Khanstant posted:Don't think I'll ever get sick of this format  QR Code Geass posted:I'll watch David Mitchell do pretty much anything  25. TIE: TASKMASTER/LUDWIG (CHANNEL 4, BBC ONE) 15 POINTS EACH TASKMASTER LISTED 3 TIMES, 5 AVG. POINTS, SERIES 17/18, UP 60  BEST CHANNEL 4 SHOW LUDWIG LISTED 2 TIMES, 7.5 AVG POINTS, #1 1 TIME, SEASON 1, NEW SHOW BEST BBC ONE SHOW Sadly, Taskmaster goes down not long after Game Changer! And you know what, I’m gonna be honest: I noticed halfway through writing this one that one of the lists was referring to the AU version of Taskmaster and that really hosed my poo poo up, so I’m just going to count them both together!
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Jan 26, 2025 18:09
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I guess I should give Ludwig a shot
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Another tie!SimonChris posted:A great spin on the historical mystery genre  Looten Plunder posted:Some genuinely impressive creative risks taken this year and they all paid off terrifically.  23. TIE: SHARDLAKE/INDUSTRY (DISNEY+, HBO) 19 POINTS EACH SHARDLAKE LISTED 3 TIMES, 6.33 AVG. POINTS, SEASON 1, NEW SHOW INDUSTRY LISTED 2 TIMES, 9.5 AVG. POINTS, SEASON 3, RETURNING SHOW Of all the shows listed this year that got more than one vote, Industry had the highest average!
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…And what’s this? Another tie!Big Bad Voodoo Lou posted:This was 100% my poo poo  SimonChris posted:Mind-blowing genius that exceeds the movie in every way  21. TIE: SUGAR/INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE (APPLE TV+, AMC) 20 POINTS EACH, LISTED 3 TIMES EACH, 6.67 AVG. POINTS EACH SUGAR, SEASON 1, NEW SHOW INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE, #1 1 TIME, SEASON 2, RETURNING SHOW BEST AMC SHOW …It was very hard to find quotes for Sugar because so many of you just wanted to talk about the twist 
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Jan 26, 2025 18:15
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I already wrote a ton of words about why Industry is so good, but seriously, Industry is so good e: so is Interview! Sugar is fine
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Jan 26, 2025 18:15
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Shardlake is so good!
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…Okay, really? Again?Jerusalem posted:lead by an actor who radiates impossibly high levels of charisma in Ncuti Gatwa  BetterLekNextTime posted:one of the funniest and most clever action/espionage/intrigue shows out there  19. TIE: DOCTOR WHO/SLOW HORSES (DISNEY+, APPLE TV+) 23 POINTS EACH, LISTED 4 TIMES EACH, 5.75 AVG. POINTS EACH DOCTOR WHO, THEY RESTARTED THE SEASON COUNTING BUT IT’S 14 gently caress YOU, DOWN 2 PLACES SLOW HORSES, SEASON 4, DOWN 3 PLACES BEST APPLE TV+ SHOW Both Doctor Who and Slow Horses are appearing a bit earlier in the count than they did last year! How intriguing! What could have taken their places?
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A lot of people need to go to prison for Doctor Who placing above many of the shows it has
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Jan 26, 2025 18:21
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You people should have said Ken Leung's name louder, he is almost enough for me to give Industry a shot not even knowing what it is about.
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…Whew, no tie this time!Vegetable posted:a very different scale of drama timp posted:The casting is great, the backgrounds are gorgeous, and the plots are juicy  18. HOUSE OF THE DRAGON (HBO) 24 POINTS, LISTED 3 TIMES, 8 AVG. POINTS, SEASON 2, RETURNING SHOW And House of the Dragon returns to claim 18th place. It’s down a bit from the respectable 12th place it got back in 2022, but what does that mean for the rest of our contenders?
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Hot D spent way too much time messing around this season but ended really well
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Aaaaand we’re back to ties.Open Source Idiom posted:managed to balance its razor sharp combination of tones all the way to the finale  BetterLekNextTime posted:you almost don't need dialog to follow along since the visual language of the shots are so powerful and well thought out  16. TIE: EVIL/RIPLEY (PARAMOUNT+, NETFLIX) 27 POINTS EACH EVIL LISTED 4 TIMES, 6.75 AVG. POINTS, #1 1 TIME, SEASON 4, RETURNING SHOW RIPLEY LISTED 3 TIMES, 9 AVG. POINTS, #1 1 TIME, SEASON 1, NEW SHOW (Un)fortunately, Evil couldn’t quite make it into the top 15, nor could the new adaptation of The Talented Mr. Ripley, despite glowing praise from many of your lists. What will make it, then?
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Ripley is one of the most beautifully-shot shows ever made but I wasn’t that fussed about the storytelling/pacing
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Oasx posted:I think Evil was the last show on my list, I did poorly this year even for me I never bothered figuring out how to calculate most/least matching lists to the final results but you are in fact one of the two serious contenders for Most Iconoclastic just from scanning the spreadsheet
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I think you know what’s about to happen next.Cojawfee posted:This is some of the greatest Star Trek there has been.  Big Bad Voodoo Lou posted:A nice introduction to radical politics disguised as superhero action and melodrama  14. TIE: STAR TREK: LOWER DECKS/X-MEN ‘97 (PARAMOUNT+, DISNEY+) 29 POINTS EACH, LISTED 5 TIMES EACH, 5.8 AVG. POINTS EACH STAR TREK: LOWER DECKS, SEASON 5, UP 21 PLACES BEST PARAMOUNT+ SHOW X-MEN ‘97, SEASON 1, NEW SHOW TIE FOR BEST ANIMATED SHOW And both of the animated shows in contention go down at the same time! Still, a respectable 14th place finish for both of them.
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I swear to GODShneak posted:the funniest show on TV  Escobarbarian posted:the Faks, they were consistently hilarious  12. TIE: HACKS/THE BEAR (MAX, HULU) 30 POINTS EACH HACKS LISTED 5 TIMES, 6 AVG. POINTS, #1 1 TIME, SEASON 3, RETURNING SHOW BEST MAX SHOW THE BEAR LISTED 6 TIMES, 5 AVG. POINTS, SEASON 3, DOWN 10 PLACES I am among all of you who are shocked that The Bear, even in a mild sophomore (well, junior) slump, couldn’t make it back into the top 10. What a year, folks.
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…Are we done with ties? I think we’re done with ties now. Thank gently caress.DarklyDreaming posted:poo poo's hosed, let's all laugh together about how much it sucks Looten Plunder posted:Sharply written, endlessly confident in itself with no Season 1 jitters  11. ENGLISH TEACHER (FX) 33 POINTS, LISTED 6 TIMES, 5.5 AVG. POINTS, SEASON 1, NEW SHOW Its future may be in jeopardy thanks to its lead being a dirtbag, but you seemed to like English Teacher a great deal! Also, this is neither here nor there, but as an English major myself I really feel like the title lacks a “The”. Weird mouthfeel on that.
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Love the Faks. Also loved the Hacks. Also loved English Teacher although shame that guy sucks
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And now, it’s finally time for the top 10! What will win? I’m pretty sure most of us have already riddled that one out, but let’s keep the drama going!Big Bad Voodoo Lou posted:often strange, but understated at the same time, creating a very unreal-feeling reality Escobarbarian posted:a super funny action comedy which also served as a humourous look at relationships kiminewt posted:the most slept-on show this year  10. MR. & MRS. SMITH (PRIME VIDEO) 35 POINTS, LISTED 6 TIMES, 5.83 AVG. POINTS, SEASON 1, NEW SHOW Mr. & Mrs. Smith might be slept-on, but it still made it to #10!
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I can certainly think of more slept-on shows!!!! 
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And the top 10 continues with a surprise smash from the latter half of the year!BetterLekNextTime posted:undoubtedly the most creative show in my top 10 Big Bad Voodoo Lou posted:a deconstruction of Asian-American identity. . . But it was also something more -- something far weirder and harder to explain SimonChris posted:I love meta-fictional stories, so this was right up my alley.  9. INTERIOR CHINATOWN (HULU) 37 POINTS, LISTED 9 TIMES, 4.11 AVG. POINTS, SEASON 1, NEW SHOW Interior Chinatown’s esoteric mix of metafiction and procedural detective drama earns it ninth place!
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Loved Interior Chinatown. I hope there will be a second season.
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Coming up in eighth place is something I truly didn’t see coming...Alhazred posted:an emotional nuclear bomb of a show. Meatgrinder posted:Absolutely brilliant straight from the heart horror story cryptoclastic posted:Brutal.  8. BABY REINDEER (NETFLIX) 40 POINTS, LISTED 5 TIMES, 8 AVG. POINTS, #1 2 TIMES, SEASON 1, NEW SHOW BEST NETFLIX SHOW Baby Reindeer claims eighth place, but that’s as high as Netflix will place on this list, it seems!
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Next up, a long-running favorite!Cojawfee posted:Every character on this show is hilarious in their own way and it doesn't get old. demostars posted:I'm glad it was sent out on a high note. TelevisedInsanity posted:one of the best finales in television  7. WHAT WE DO IN THE SHADOWS (FX) 41 POINTS, LISTED 10 TIMES, 4.1 AVG. POINTS, SEASON 6, UP 14 PLACES BEST SITUATION COMEDY What We Do in the Shadows claws its way back into the top 10 with its final season!
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So far I have 3 shows I would happily put on my 2025 top ten, and three more that will have to fail spectacularly to not be contenders too, so 2025 tv is starting off good.
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One show left before we enter the top five! What could be left?Chairman Capone posted:Only the last two episodes aired in 2024, but come on... that last episode alone is worth it Khanstant posted:Just incredible evolution of the stuff Nathan Fielder seems interested in tackling ShoogaSlim posted:before I knew it, I was totally hooked  6. THE CURSE (SHOWTIME) 44 POINTS, LISTED 5 TIMES, 8.8 AVG. POINTS, #1 3 TIMES, SEASON 1, UP 18 PLACES BEST SHOWTIME SHOW …Huh. Can’t say I expected that the last two episodes of The Curse would end up on here, but what about The Curse can you honestly say was expected?
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For the first entry in the top five, we’ve got a show I’m legitimately shocked has taken so long to appear.Jerusalem posted:Hilarious, touching, impressively made and very, very, very, very, very, very gay Shneak posted:a genuinely funny ensemble comedy that planted its easter eggs rewardingly Andrew_1985 posted:Finally, a small-scale Marvel series which isn’t afraid of fun  5. AGATHA ALL ALONG (DISNEY+) 45 POINTS, LISTED 7 TIMES, 6.43 AVG. POINTS, #1 1 TIME, SEASON 1, NEW SHOW BEST DISNEY+ SHOW A Marvel show made it into the top five! How cute!
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Next up is another orphaned season ending, this time from a much-beloved long-running series.SimonChris posted:a great return to form Vegetable posted:Noah Hawley can do very little wrong. MrBuddyLee posted:Missed this show.  4. FARGO (FX) 57 POINTS, LISTED 9 TIMES, 6.33 AVG. POINTS, #1 1 TIME, SEASON 5, UP 3 PLACES Fargo falls just shy of the top 3! Extremely impressive, given that it only aired three episodes this year!
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I have food now! Too many 2023 shows in this top 10 lol
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Crazy how that guy does NOT have the worst teeth in Fargo
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Now, it’s finally time for the top 3! I don’t think the results will surprise any of you who’ve been paying attention, but maybe some of the raw numbers will!Alhazred posted:a portrayal of an absolute poo poo human being with no redeeming qualities QR Code Geass posted:it drew me in to the finish and left me wanting more. Jerusalem posted:two very strong performances by Colin Farrell (who is unrecognizable under the prosthetics) and Cristin Milioti. Meatgrinder posted:A great surprise  3. THE PENGUIN (HBO) 60 POINTS, LISTED 10 TIMES, 6 AVG. POINTS, SEASON ONE, NEW SHOW BEST HBO SHOW BEST SHOW NEVER RANKED #1 And our top 3 has a DC show in it! I guess DC did beat Marvel this time at least!
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I actually have no idea what 2 could be lol, I wasn’t paying enough attention I guess
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Now, for our runner-up:Looten Plunder posted:The tone was perfect, the characters were fun, the case was spectacular and they did a great job weaving a TV story into a video game world. bagrada posted:much better than I expected Big Bad Voodoo Lou posted:ridiculously fun by blending much-needed, tension-breaking humor with all the action and horror SimonChris posted:They managed to capture the chaotic feel of playing the game, timp posted:They managed to strike the perfect balance between making a good season of television while also capturing the spirit of [the] game  2. FALLOUT (PRIME VIDEO) 132 POINTS, LISTED 20 TIMES, 6.6 AVG. POINTS, #1 3 TIMES, SEASON 1, NEW SHOW BEST PRIME VIDEO SHOW MOST LISTED And Fallout more than doubles The Penguin’s raw point total! There’s only one show left now…
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Escobarbarian posted:I already wrote a ton of words about why Industry is so good, but seriously, Industry is so good Currently watching Industry because of your words so
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^^^^  that really means a lot to me thank you!oh yeah. good-rear end show
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