But we can’t end the year without celebrating the great TV series of 2019.
And keep clicking until the end for the big reveal: The fiveworstshows of 2019.
KRISTEN’S TOP 10 LIST: 10.
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Catch up before season 2 drops next year.
Sounds hilarious, right?
But Gervais also takes our current gripe culture and by extension himself to task, as well.
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(Darren’shilarious reviewsums those episodes up perfectly.)
It’sDallas, but everyone’s JR.
7.
Need to stage a fake exorcism?
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They’ve got you.
Looking for a sea monster to attract tourists to your beachside town?
They’re on it.
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Remember, TV industry: Sometimes endings can be perfect, so just let them be.
Stop asking yourself (or me) what to watch and JUST WATCH THIS.
“Men hate women, women hate themselves,” she declares, unapologetic to the end.
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Watchmen (HBO)
A lunatic who fishes for fetuses.
One episode even hinges on a crucial appearance by the Cash Cab.
DARREN’S TOP 10 LIST: 10.
HBO
A freaky-funny comic western that crosses national borders as freely as it clashes unexpected tones,Graceperpetually surprises.
Another eccentric gem from co-creator Steve Conrad, who previously crafted the masterfully strange spy thriller-musicalPatriot.
But man, that yacht slide sure looks like fun.
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Ramy (Hulu)
A stunninglyconfident family sitcomcombining autobiographical texture with spiritual complexity.
We’ll miss this show after the final episodes arrive next month.
Lodge 49 (AMC)
This funny-sorrowful good-hang dramedy hit new heights in season 2’s final five episodes.
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Did I mention the trip to Mexico?
Or the sudden possibility that the Earth is hollow?
Their joy is infectious they make me love the Knicks, and I don’t even like basketball.
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Still, “Watchmenis great!”
isn’t exactly an unusual TV-critical statement lately.
The fatal and furious premiere establishes a no-one-is-safe, all-cuteness-shall-get-eaten-alive terseness.
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But after a mere five episodes,Primalhas already established itself as an essential high-emotion thrill ride.
It’s essentially wordless, aside of occasional grunts from the caveman (voiced by Aaron LaPlante).
Like Hulu’s other stellar freshman sitcomRamy,PEN15represents a unique comedic sensibility arriving fully formed.
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Both shows return next year for season 2, so now’s the time to catch up.
What can good people do in bad times like this?
THE WORST SHOWS OF 2019: 5.
EPIX
Everything after the first two episodes of Chambers (Netflix)
Can we get a do-over on this one?
Director Alfonso Gomez-Rejon turned the desert setting into a sun-bleached horrorscape, andUma Thurmanmade a compelling despondent mother.
Then momentum stalled out with a go-nowhere cult mythology.
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Another overstretched Netflix season that probably should’ve been a two-hour movie.
Darren Franich
4.
The Village (NBC)
ImagineThis is Usin apartment building actually, don’t.
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Lorraine freaking Toussaint!).
Negative bonus points for a completely unnecessary and manipulative use of 9/11 as a plot point.
Fortunately for viewers and all involved, NBC abandoned thisVillageafter just one season.
Netflix
Kristen Baldwin
3.
KB
2.
And when two icons embarrass themselves at the same time, on the same stage?
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The joke’s on them, and us.
DF
1.
“I have God knows how many brothers and sisters!”
Greg Endries/SHOWTIME
Don’t bring God into this, honey he didn’t greenlight this mess.
HBO
Adult Swim
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Patrick Harbron/CBS All Access
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