Nominate the Best TV/Web/Streaming Series of 2020 - Nominations Closing January 7

LJ: Thanks for the input but i have reasons for the system of differentiation I have set up there... I'd like to give people the chance to vote for 2 "#1" picks when they are drastically different. As a for instance, I'm hard pressed to choose between Bluey and I May Destroy You and how do you play that Sophie's Choice?

Don't forget Ozark (Netflix).

Thought I added! Just did.

late in the year released 4th season of big mouth should prob be added too

cosine

Totally forgot the second season of Homecoming (Prime). Didn't like it as much as the first, but my ballot will be brief enough that I'll have it on there.

that's 160 nominations and i still feel like we're missing several heavy hitters

Beastars (Netflix)

Genndy Tartakovsky's Primal (cartoon network)

also joe pera's second season aired in late 2019 (and was top 10 in the 2019 poll) so might want to cut that one off the noms list?

Magic for Humans (Netflix)

(Only just learned tonight that a new season was released half a year ago, yr real bad at this Netflix)

half of pera was in 2020 but it DID place in the 2019 poll so i am open to pulling it for that reason.

I just finished watching Undone on Amazon and was about to nominate it, but I see that it was actually 2019 and simply didn't place last year. What a shame, it's an excellent show

According to this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Pera_Talks_with_You#Season_2_(2019%E2%80%9320)

Nine out of 13 "Joe Pera" Season 2 episodes were in 2020, plus the "Relaxing Old Footage with Joe Pera" special also came out in 2020. I am totally voting for Joe Pera if it's on this year's poll (maybe #1 spot for me!).

i'm right there with you but every episode except Relaxing Old Footage (which is effectively a single episode special and not open to nomination) was out by the time we voted last year and it charted at #7 last year so we gotta let it go for this one
Top 77 Television and Streaming Video Series of 2019

Ah...I understand. Sorry Joe!

Canada's Drag Race (Crave / BBC)
Dracula (BBC)
Mrs America (Hulu)
Unorthodox (Netflix)

Also does Small Axe (BBC/Amazon Prime) qualify?

should do imo, even though at least Mangrove and Lovers Rock debuted at film festivals

yeah, we can do small axe, though i would appreciate it if anyone who votes for it has seen at least three “episodes” and isn’t just voting for lovers rock

moonbase 8 (showtime)

Yeah I guess so

Mr. Robot (USA)

robot ended in 2019, no?

lol, I thought it had been a while and saw its dedicated thread had been bumped but only just now realized I was reading forks's nomination post from January 2020.

TL;DR: NEVER MIND!

We can (and will) do a side vote for your favorite non-2020 thing u watched

We can (and will) do a side vote for your favorite non-2020 thing u watched

Cool news (look for Rectify on my ballot at number one with a bullet).

might vote for Succession S1 as well as S2 then

lol yeah succession got me through the first month of covid which was iirc several hundred years ago

The Midnight Gospel (Netflix)
Solar Opposites (Hulu)
AEW Dynamite (TBS)
The Dark Side Of The Ring (Viceland)
Red Letter Media (Youtube)
Bojack Horseman (Netflix)

For All Mankind (AppleTV)
Aggretsuko (Netflix)
Followers (Netflix)

BTW, Bojack did place #14 in the 2019 poll but the final eight episodes were not part of that vote, as they came out on January 31... so any votes should be for that final half of the last season as a stand-alone show.

We're wrapping this up on Thursday so get any late nominations in now!

The Plot Against America (HBO)

The New Pope (HBO)

nb, i haven't seen either but i know they got lots of acclaim

His Dark Materials (HBO)

Aggretsuko (Netflix)

Did not realize episodes of this came out last year! I binged all three seasons just a month ago, thought it was older. Thanks for nomming

I appreciate the thinking ahead but I would ask that we only nominate shows that we might possibly vote for by the time voting comes around... so I'm okay if you're nominating something in advance of a planned watch prior to Feb 1 but otherwise, no need for completism.

i do plan on watching at least one of those before the end of the month, but there might be some latecomers who vote but don't nominate

also fair! since there's been no limit put on nominations, i just want to avoid folks feeling the need to nominate everything

oh yes i forgot about Aggretsuko. great season.

re: Bojack it was apparently among the most acclaimed of 2020 despite the half-season
https://digg.com/2020/top-10-tv-shows-2020

these are the things currently missing from our nominees that made the metacritic 100. I saw about an episode from a third of these but don't think they're worth nominating. anybody wanna rep?

• My Brilliant Friend (HBO)
• Visible (Apple)
• Lenox Hill (Netflix)
• Baby-Sitters Club (Netflix)
• Immigration Nation (Netflix)
• The Good Fight (CBS All Access)
• One Day at a Time (POP)
• Feel Good (Netflix)
• Cheer (Netflix)
• Central Park (Apple)
• Atlanta's Missing and Murdered: The Lost Children (HBO)
• Everything's Gonna Be Okay (Freeform)
• Betty (HBO)
• Challenger: Final Flight (Netflix)
• The Wilds (Amazon)
• Hillary (Hulu)
• Bridgerton (Netflix)
• Des (iTV)
• Run (HBO)
• Frayed (Cinemax)
• World on Fire (PBS/BBC1)
• Dirty John (USA)
• A Suitable Boy (BBC/Acorn)
• Deadwater Fell (Channel 4)
• The Capture (Peacock)
• Stateless (ABC AU, Netflix)
• Saved by the Bell (Peacock)
• Twenties (BET)
• The Not Too Late Show with Elmo (HBO)
• McMillions (HBO)
• Homeland (Showtime)
• Shrill (Hulu)
• Sanditon (ITV, PBS)
• Katy Keene (CW)
• Belgravia (Epix, ITV)
• The Third Day (HBO)
• Gentefied (Netflix)

Rupaul's Drag Race (VH1)

legitimately floored to learn that homeland was airing new episodes in 2020-

I saw Hillary--I thought of it more as a documentary than a TV series, but I guess it could go either way. I would put it lower on my list.

Didn't know anyone rated The Good Fight until I saw it pop up on several year-end lists (nb, have never watched it or its previous incarnation).

it’s pretty good imo, i think i like it better than Good Wife

Taskmaster (Channel 4)

my mom and my gf both watched Lennox Hill (independently of each other) and loved it; it looked pretty good but I had already gotten into Hospital on BBC which more or less seemed like the same thing except people have nice british accents and everyone's insured.