This
was a surprisingly good year for television. I used to watch a ton of
TV but over the years I got sick of shows either being canceled too
soon, dragging on for too long, or being just like every other show
on television. Seriously. I can only watch so many shows about a
detective that has a special ability/is a raging asshole to everyone.
I decided to write a little bit about some of the shows this year
that got me super excited and had me dying to see the next episode
like Game of Thrones of course though they fumbled about two
episodes.
There
were some shows I was very disappointed in like The Strain. They
really fucked that show up with terrible acting, writing, and
effects. I wanted that show to be so good. I started watching The
Affair and three episodes in I hate everyone involved. I'll try but
its hard. Okay. On to the good stuff!
I
found out about this BBC/PBS show The Escape Artist months after it
debuted from Cam. Its a BBC series so that means it only has three
episodes which it turns out is a god thing. One hour episodes with so
few episodes means that every single one has to be important. It
stars David Tennant as a barrister that does his job defending people
even when it is shady as hell. The first episode does a great job of
establishing him as a a character and by the end I was like “Oh,
no!” He defends a guy named Liam Foyle played by Toby Kobbell (who
plays Doctor Doom in the upcoming Fantastic Four movie) and I will
leave it at that. I so don't want to spoil this show for anyone that
didn't see it. Every minute and detail of this show is important and
all the acting is great. I strongly suggest you check this out...if
you can find it. I watched it on Amazon.
I got
into The Flash on CW late. Donnie mentioned it to me and I was like
“Eh...naw.” I had given up after Smallville upset me. I never
watched Arrow. Flash isn't even in my top ten favorite superheroes.
But I gave it a try and I'll be damned if I wasn't hooked from the
first episode. After about nine episodes they have yet to stumble.
Years after the murder of his mother and watching his father that he
knows is innocent he gets turned into The Flash after an “accident.”
Each episode has been fun, exciting, entertaining, and dare I say
it?, touching. Grant Austin stars as Barry Allen aka The Streak. He
gets his name later. I don't know much about the character in comics
outside of the basics so everything on this show is new to me and I
have nothing to compare it to other than the Justice League cartoon.
If you've been on the fence about this show I suggest you give it a
shot.
Fargo is the one show I got mad at people for not watching. All ten
episodes were good and even when they did something that I hate in
any other show or movie they managed to make it even better. Martin
Freeman as Lester Nygaard “accidentally” kills his wife after
being pushed too far by her and asks for help from an obviously
dangerous man named Lorne Malvo played by Billy Bob Thornton. The
breakout star of this was Allison Tolman playing deputy Molly
Solverson as well as Colin Hanks as Gus Grimly. This was one of the
most addictive shows of the year and one that I could never guess
where it was headed. Though it is a show about murder there are quite
a few moments that will make you laugh out loud. There is gonna be
another season of this and I hope they can capture the same magic one
more time. Ten episodes were enough for this story, not the twenty
that shows are starting to do.
True Detective is hands down one of the best seasons of a show ever
created. Not enough people I know watched this and it sucked because
this is a show that is fun to talk about with other people that
watched every week waiting to see where it was going. Matthew
McConaughey stars as detective Rustin Spencer “Rust” Cohle. He
starts off looking like hell and flashbacks show him as a very
different guy and you wait to figure out why. Woody Harrelson is
detective Martin Eric “Marty” Hart who is pretending to be far
more clean cut than he really is. The murder that they are trying to
solve is damned near impossible to figure out unless you are paying
very close attention. Another great thing about this show is that
there is an actual payoff. This show will hook you very fast so if
you decide to jump in be ready to lose a lot of what used to be free
time.
Constantine
was a show that I was very excited about from the start. The first
episode was kinda shaky but quickly remedied after the removal of a
cast member. His origins are changed from the Hellblazer comic book
and even though I know some stuff about the comic I wasn't a huge
enough fan for me to be upset about it. This is nothing like the
movie of the same title. Played by Matt Ryan he already knows that he
is going to hell when he dies and is reluctantly working with an
angel named Manny played by Harold Perrineau to stop the increasing
dark forces. The story, effects, and acting on this show is good. I
missed it a few times because it comes on at 10pm on Friday nights
which is like daring people to not watch your show. NBC is notorious
for ruining shows just as much as Fox is. For weeks it looked like
this show was going to be canceled but it is actually movie to 8pm
starting next month which is awesome.
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