Top 77 Television and Streaming Video Series of 2019

of all the "damn, it's hard to be a cynical white couple in 201X" shows, i think catastrophe did it best

a depressing percentage of shows on my ballot will not be back next year

Lol at Contrapoints tying with SU

Huuuuge Natalie stan here y'all #truthTeller #nevercancelled

love Catastrophe but the last season was weak, amazing it got made at all in context of course

it wasn't at the level of previous seasons, but the final episode was brilliant.

been at a thing all week and havent been able to post yet. moka's images are great again. 77 is too many but there's already some good stuff that has shown up pretty high that i thought would be much higher so maybe 77 is good. Just seems like too much tv, the inclusion of youtube shows helps tho.

catching up a bit and eephus otm about nailed it. really fun for a handful of eps but im done with it now.

https://i.imgur.com/An2O5zE.jpg
#29 - Jeopardy (ABC) - 58 points, 7 votes

Will that guy on Jeopardy ever lose?

Jeopardy on Hulu

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdVavkM8N6M

y'know, i didn't even think about jeopardy, but it really was great this year.

the GOAT tourney didn't drop 'til 2020, but if i remember it in 10 months, i'll vote for it then.

jeopardy never gets old

aw trebek

i think my cousin was his radiologist a year or so back

<3 the eternal Jeop

james' run made 2019 some top tier jeopardy

yeah he was must watch every night

Is Contrapoints the first Youtube channel to place?

That Scottish road trip one placed too and maybe others

i was sure tim rogers was gonna make it but i don't see him placing this high xp

CP is the first YT to place that still would have placed if I hadn't voted for it. (I did though)

jon bois made it too

saw 2 or 3 eps of derry girls, i can see the appeal but the ones i saw all followed the exact same formula and i didn't really need any more of it.

Catastrophe's brand of cynicism was too uncomfortably sadistic to watch, though I like the two main actors a lot. I thought The Let Down (Australian show on Netflix) somehow negotiated all of the bleakness in a more humane way (and I thought it was funnier).

Speaking of bleakness, I just realized that End of the F***ing World would've qualified for this poll.

season 2 of end of the world was a clear step down, would've made it if i decided to just submit every show i watched in 2019 lol

Catastrophe's brand of cynicism was too uncomfortably sadistic to watch, though I like the two main actors a lot. I thought The Let Down (Australian show on Netflix) somehow negotiated all of the bleakness in a more humane way (and I thought it was funnier).

i felt the complete opposite! loved catastrophe, watched a couple of the let down and found it a bit too cruel/bleak.

https://i.imgur.com/fDD5UrH.jpg
#26 (Tie) - Years and Years (BBC, HBO) - 60 points, 6 votes

Years and Years on HBO Website

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSOo4_7Pccg

Man, I can't believe we've gotten through almost a week of results without a single one of my picks showing up. I must have amazing taste.

Would like to get to #15 today so i'll try to zap one up every ten minutes or so for the next hour or so barring a surprise.

https://i.imgur.com/tlSjaIs.jpg
#26 (Tie) - True Detective (HBO) - 60 points, 6 votes

TRUE DETECTIVE season 3

True Detective on HBO Website

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpUznQds8p4

huh i forgot to vote for catastrophe, was it really last year?

dark was my #2, i know it's a bit dour (and hard to follow) but honestly i couldn't really imagine a much better bleak high stakes family soap opera time travel drama.

worried my #1 isn't going to make it now.

https://i.imgur.com/8kTBRUV.jpg
#26 (Tie) - Sex Education (Netflix) - 60 points, 6 votes

Netflix Watch Instantly Recommendation Thread

Sex Education on Netflix Website

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SjeO145JLc

True Detective s3 was its best season imho

old man stephen dorff is my spirit animal

Dorff's best role, imo. Mahershala and Carmen Ejogo also very very good.

https://i.imgur.com/EwOlWkz.jpg
#25 – The Great British Bake Off / The Great British Baking Show (Channel 4, Netflix) - 60 points, 7 votes

On Your Marks, Get Set, Baaaaake! A Thread for Great British Baking Show / Bake Off & all of its sundry delights

The Great British Baking Show on Netflix Website

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

yeah true d was one of the last shows i cut. this season was impeccably-acted, and well-plotted as far as true detective ever is, but i missed the gothic atmosphere and flat-out weirdness of season one.

Sex Education is an absolute revelation! It would have been second on my ballot had we not only started watching it a few days ago (still a couple of episodes left to watch in S2). The reality this show is set in is magnificent.

Close to first on mine too. Hang on, more in a bit

need to watch TD S3 but not sure I will based on S2.

I actually liked True Detective S2 -- which, I only remember parts of, but the opening credits made me very happy

need to watch TD S3 but not sure I will based on S2.

― Thybulle on the Dash (Spottie), Thursday, February 13, 2020 4:04 PM (eight minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

i was in the same boat for a minute, but they really might as well be two totally different series

I think about S1 all the time. I really need to see S3 (I saw a bit of S2, was a bit sick in my mouth and gave up. Do I need to revisit?)

Bake Off makes me want to retch. There is only one thing worse than Noel Fielding and that's golf.

Sex Education is ostensibly a British show set in a nameless British town (in some mythic part of Wales? Somerset? Who knows) featuring mostly British actors. The school however is a like a fever dream amalgamation of every American TV high school rolled into one with some extra 'zones', such as the toilets, which appear to be some kind of unconscious heterotopia into which the adolescent therapeutic formulations of the protagonist can be aired to his 'clients'. There are so many beautiful details to unearth in this mise-en-scene-heavy show. Just a few: there is a disproportionate amount of dungarees, denim, rainbow and pastel colours in the wardrobes of the town's inhabitants; there seems to be some kind brilliant progressive local art scene; there is seemingly only one shop. So many excellent characters, such wonderful storylines. I can't throw enough superlatives at this show.

For some reason tv shows about teens gross me out though it doesn't bug me in other media

Forks can you do a recap post of 76-25? or however far you are going today.

That sounds interesting. I know there was some talk about this show but I couldn't tell if that's just because everything on Netflix seems to get talked about.

For some reason tv shows about teens gross me out though it doesn't bug me in other media

― bold caucasian eroticism (Simon H.), Thursday, February 13, 2020 1:17 PM (twenty-three seconds ago)

I am kinda with you on this -- for me, it's more like "irrationally embarrassed" --college students I'm fine with, but high school, is a "no" -- they are slightly ahead of "reality shows about nouveau riche stupid people" in terms of things I just don't wanna see

tv shows about teens gross me out

In the case of shows like Big Mouth, me too. This is so hyper-realised and strange and intelligently written that it kind of transcends grossness...it's like a perfect cross between Adrian Mole, 10 Things I Hate About You and idk Lynch.

okay, that's not entirely true -- if there are murders or weird alien shit, I can deal with tv teens and nouveau riche idiots

Agreed that Sex Education is awesome, it's the most life-affirming, empathetic, beautifully inclusive show on the telly right now... Well, besides Steven Universe, of course. Glad to see both of them place, though they're both too low. IMO Steven Universe was the best TV show of the 2010s.