It's beguiling to me that I spent 350+ hours watching television. Fourteen and a half days glued to my boob tube. Dang! That seems like a lot… but also that's less than an hour a day… so maybe it wasn't that much? But I digress. What did I watch this past year?
OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes!
Bedlam
Harley Quinn
Hanna
Fortitude
The Umbrella Academy
The Stand
The Simpsons
Halfworlds
Star Wars: Rebels
Mr. Mayor
Slasher
Disenchantment
Marvel's WandaVision
Dead to Me
Brooklyn Nine-Nine
Japan Sinks 2020
Sweet Home
Clarice
The Great North
Friends
High-Rise Invasion
Pacific Rim: The Black
Prodigal Son
Marvel's The Falcon and the Winter Soldier
Bob's Burgers
DOTA: Dragon's Blood
YOLO: Crystal Fantasy
The Haunting of Bly Manor
Star Wars: The Bad Batch
Castlevania
Invincible
Marvel's Loki
Marvel's M.O.D.O.K.
HouseBroken
Godzilla Singular Point
Resident Evil: Infinite Darkness
Evil
Ted Lasso
Soldiers or Zombies
Marvel's What If...?
The White Lotus
Eden
Danger 5
Darwin's Game
The Tick
Star Trek: Lower Decks
Final Space
Star Wars: Visions
Squid Game
Freakish
The Head
The Nevers
My Name
Star Trek: Prodigy
Miracle Workers
Channel Zero
La Brea
Hellbound
Masters of the Universe: Revelations
Star Wars: The Clone Wars
The Wheel of Time
Elves
Arcane
Big Mouth
Marvel's Hawkeye
F is for Family
Aggretsuko
What We Do in the Shadows
Star Wars: The Book of Boba Fett
Of all those shows, which resonated with me?
Marvel's WandaVision - The perfect blend of pop culture, nostalgia, and post-modernism.
Star Wars: Rebels - Recommend by a friend, this show got me hooked on the Star Wars animated universe.
The Head - If you need a perfect single season mystery, look no further.
Squid Game - It was as close to perfection as TV got this year.
Looking at all the television that impacted me this year, if I were to guess at a common thread it might be characters that were dead-set in trying to manifest something greater in both themselves and those around them. From Seong's need to seed hope in order to flower humanity in his fellow contestants, to Wanda's desire to find closure for her trauma via a ramshackle community, to Ted's belief in the power of believing in everyone, I gravitated towards leads that were on a mission — and they weren't going to take "no" for an answer.
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