Top 77 Television and Streaming Video Series of 2019

I don't watch enough telly to vote in any meaningful way, but would have voted for Gone Fishing. It's a bit like the Trip in that it's beautiful to look at and it happens to have two old men enacting their dotage in it. The difference here is that it's done with a real light touch.

I'm not a big fan of the 'it gets better in season 9!1!!!' argument but this definitely benefits from accumulation (after 3 episodes, I basically dozed through the rest with my eyes open).

it reminded me of the thing Alan Plater said about the best bits of writing on Z Cars being when they were just sitting in the car and chatting about nothing, it was a welcome change from the constant pressure for things to happen on tv

xxp: Still have the warm feels of seeing Dark Crystal at age 10 (and Time Bandits at 9). I recall my playground mates would hum the deepest chords we could manage, mimicking the urRu/Mystics.

They seem absent here.

I'd hope DC:AOR has less CGI, greenscreen, and impossible/weightless camera movements than the highlight reel of the trailer. Just charmless for me.

You should definitely give it a go. There's obviously some CGI but it's done with real puppets and sets and had a charm of its own because of that. It's also got a very good story and is absolutely gorgeous to look at.

https://i.imgur.com/UneC7qZ.jpg
#53 (Tie) - Euphoria (HBO) - 30 points, 3 votes

Euphoria on HBO

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziMUD0_TTg0

https://i.imgur.com/b1j3nxB.jpg
#53 (Tie) - Bosch (Amazon) - 30 points, 3 votes

"If you can smoke and drink while doing it, it's not a sport" - a thread for BOSCH

Bosch on Amazon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnVtSOTfbEU

hey it's the man in black

https://i.imgur.com/WY1WlGj.jpg
#53 (Tie) - 63 Up (ITV, UK) - 30 points, 3 votes

7-Up (The Michael Apted documentary series)

63 Up Website

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ugw7hUoJ0C0

https://i.imgur.com/VOylam0.jpg
#48 (Tie) - Veronica Mars (Hulu) - 30 points, 4 votes

Veronica Mars

Veronica Mars on Hulu

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pt0QuaQ0huk

The new season of Veronica Mars seemed about on par with season 2 and 3, though I completely forgot it existed from after I finished watching it until right now.

#48 (Tie) - Tuca and Bertie (Netflix) - 30 points, 4 votes

Netflix Watch Instantly Recommendation Thread

Tuca and Bertie on Netflix

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZybYIJtbcu0

^ harshly done by

that said I still haven't seen the final one or two

Never before has a single episode torpedoed my liking of a show as much as the Sex Bugs episode of this did. Struggled on for one more but I was done. Shame as this could have been pretty good

opening minute was enough to torpedo my interest

https://i.imgur.com/Dkr6v5b.jpg
#48 (Tie) - The Dragon Prince (Netflix) - 30 points, 4 votes

The Dragon Prince on Netflix

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uc2gmVTb6-k

https://i.imgur.com/O1yCI0A.jpg
#48 (Tie) - Pose (FX) - 30 points, 4 votes

Pose on FX Website

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJFCY2mITHY

Not familiar with a lot of these Netflix shows but ... lotta parents of young kids voting here?

Sometimes kid content is great on its own terms. I'm going to be voting (quite high) for the latest Shaun The Sheep in our movie poll for example

Would be nice if a few fans of these shows turned up and talked about why they like them though. Do your job ILX!

(I don't have kids. I am a kid.)

Paw Patrol's gotten pretty repetitive in its later seasons which is why I didn't vote for it

dang this is going fast

totally forgot about the new veronica mars episodes, gotta check those out.

i watched and guiltily enjoyed all seasons of bosch but couldn't bring myself to vote for it since i had no memory of what the most recent season was

Paw Patrol With Five Little Buses Pregnant Elsa Scares Pikachu

would you say it's in... TURBO MODE

To Be Filed Under: Oh How the Mighty Have Fallen

https://i.imgur.com/g7PqUe7.jpg
#48 (Tie) - Game of Thrones (HBO) - 30 points, 4 votes

HBO's adaptation of Game of Thrones - Thread 2. There are a lot of nerds.

Game of Thrones on HBO

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlR4PJn8b8I

I'm still waiting for a single one of my poll selections to show up! I gather at this point that I must like shows that are either very popular or universally hated.

Paw Patrol With Five Little Buses Pregnant Elsa Scares Pikachu

these vids are thankfully mostly gone from YouTube but still when you search "Paw Patrol" the first few results are not of the show but rather of grown-ass men playing with Paw Patrol stuffed animals. they have like 50 million views each.

Sometimes kid content is great on its own terms.

I love Horrible Histories, better than GOT tbh

https://i.imgur.com/F4Egnij.jpg
#46 (Tie) - Stath Lets Flats (Channel 4) - 33 points, 4 votes

Rolling UK Comedy Thread - "Ricky Don't Lose Larry David's Number

Stath Lets Flats on Channel 4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOc_2z34CUc

There's my #1. Jamie Demetriou has saved British comedy

It's covered in...brack

So far 2 things I've watched and 0 that I voted for.

Obviously you don't have to be a Londoner of Greek Cypriot extraction to love this, but everything - the gleeful nonsense dialogue, the pinpoint characterisation, the mounting physical absurdity - is both reminiscent of the absolute heights of UK sitcoms past and something rather syncretic and new. It feels absolutely attuned to the cultural backgrounds of all of its characters while allowing them to stretch out and be wonderfully idiosyncratic. Above all, it's hilarious. S1 was great but S2 is a masterpiece and will take less than 3 hours of your time to devour. Do so if you've ever giggled at Alan Partridge or Fawlty Towers.

https://i.imgur.com/rJXHdiq.jpg
#46 (Tie) - Kingdom (Netflix) - 33 points, 4 votes

Netflix Watch Instantly Recommendation Thread

Kingdom on Netflix

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4l-yByZpaaM

Two of my four votes, 63 Up and Kingdom, have already placed. Gonna privilege my own taste here and say they're this low because they weren't widely seen. 63 Up, in particular, is the best thing about death and its approach I've seen this year and maybe ever. (Kingdom, of course, is also about death but in a very different way....)

Kingdom: I really like zombie stuff and have watched a lot of such shows, many of which take the form "it's zombies + [genre x]" but "zombies + court intrigue" is the best such combo I've seen.

Checking from my phone but hope that’s not a remake of LvT’s Kingdom.

Stath Lets Flats is so wonderfully observed that you are almost instantly invested in the lives of each character. It also has the best uses for absurdity in contemporary UK TV. Everyone should watch it now.

It also has the best uses for absurdity in contemporary UK TV.

tbf we are currently watching something else that will place later, and which runs it pretty close in this regard (and would have done for my #1 slot too if I'd seen it a week earlier)

but yeah

https://i.imgur.com/aatf5mI.jpg
#45 - The Good Place (NBC) - 35 points, 5 votes

The Good Place on NBC

The Good Place on Hulu

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bnq6IRgt4yE

too low!

Man, if we'd done this poll last year

I mean, final season was still good I guess, but...the wheels were idling a bit

Still haven't watched the final episode for some reason

oh, i guess most of this would've been the beginning of s4

even a weak season of TGP should still be higher

As I say, last year it would have been unthinkable to not put it in my top ten but this time I couldn't even be bothered to vote for it. I wonder what changed. Maybe I did, man

GOT too high!

Dragon Prince keeps getting better, it's not quite as good as Avatar or Korra at their best but this last season did some challenging things that the other two shows haven't.

yeah, fess up GOT voters

Kingdom: I really like zombie stuff and have watched a lot of such shows, many of which take the form "it's zombies + [genre x]" but "zombies + court intrigue" is the best such combo I've seen.

zombies + court intrigue + hats is an even better combo

I kind of miss the MMA series by the same name