9/4/23 update:
- I loved (despite its gore) Utopia. (The original 2013-14 BBC version, NOT the Prime Video remake, which has much worse viewer ratings.)
- I enjoyed Night Sky. Fabulous acting by Sissy Spacek and J.K. Simmons!
I wanted to see the next season of both shows and am embittered that neither was green-lit for another season.
6/9/23 update: I’ve been loving these two series:
I watch far less television than most, but I’ve binge-watched some series in recent years that I enjoyed and recommend. In roughly declining order of how much I enjoyed them:
- Andor (brilliant dialogue; characters & plot feel grippingly authentic/relatable; “good guys” doing bad things for higher reasons; “bad guys” acting out of principle; first few episodes are slow/confusing, but keep going; watched this twice)
- The Expanse
- Schitt’s Creek
- Invincible (I normally don’t enjoy superhero stories or cartoons, but this was fabulous)
- For All Mankind
- The Mandalorian
- Ted Lasso (first season was great; second was good)
- The Orville (please renew this!!!)
- Shrinking (stick with it through the less-than-great first few episodes… the rest are great)
- Firefly
- After Life
- The Man in the High Castle
- Altered Carbon, season 1 (didn’t bother with second season, which is much lower-rated; first season was enjoyable, aside from some hard-to-watch adult-themed content)
- that comic superhero show
- Billions (the early seasons)
- Upload
- Hello Tomorrow!
With appreciation to Agnieszka Kowalczyk for the photo on Unsplash