ILX's Best Television of 2021 Poll / VOTING AND CAMPAIGNING THREAD / Voting Ends After January 31, 2022

Campaigning: OK it's weird to stump for something I have not in fact watched but I just started South Side with season 1, a show I feel like I've never heard people talk about, and if season 2 is nearly as good it deserves serious consideration. Just plain old simple sitcom funniness, but so many shows fail at this! I will try to have s2 at least part-watched before the deadline so I can vote for it.

Though the best "not much to it but just plain funny and there seems to be no chatter about it" show I watched this year was The Other Two.

4 ballots! Hey, why don't you send me your hastily assembled ballot tonight?

― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, January 12, 2022 6:24 PM (fourteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

still catching up on things! there's so much tv

Is Inside Job worth sticking with?

I'm enjoying it! Wasnt fussed with ep1 but yeah it got good. But you have to be into loads of popculture/metaref riffing. I'm here for Christian Slater's angry fuckup dad, he's great in this. And it understandably has the vibe of Gravity Falls (but quite a bit ruder).

South Side is fucking great and season 2 is as good as season 1 if not better.

VC, don't let perfect be the enemy of good!

I have 2 shows I want to finish watching before voting. On the plus side I actually watched enough TV this year to make a top 10 list.

Yeah I decided I'll submit after one more show (Station Eleven). I'm probably making a top 20 list this year!

Voted!

Voted, because face it, I won't get to see most of these Oscar movies until after the Oscars anyway.

lol wrong poll

7 votes! I love the early energy! If you know you're only gonna vote for like ten shows, why not get your ballot in over the weekend?

Point of fact: there are now over 200 shows listed as nominated.

I completely slept on the nominations phase of this poll, so I would like to suggest the following:

Things I would very much rep for:
GeoWizard Missions (YouTube)
Dickinson S2 and S3 (Apple TV+)
Dear White People S4 (Netflix)

Things that I might decide to pad out my ballot with:
Murder Among the Mormons S1 (Netflix)
Couple’s Therapy S2 (Showtime)
Special S2 (Netflix)
Starstruck S1 (BBC)
Motherland S3 (BBC)
Atypical S4 (Netflix)
Superstore S6 (Netflix)
Love Is Blind: After the Altar (Netflix)
Love on the Spectrum S2 (Netflix)
Love is Blind: Brazil (S1, Netflix)
Project Runway S19 (Bravo)
Tiger King S2 (Netflix)
The Raincoat Killer: Chasing a Predator in Korea (Netflix)
The Sons of Sam: A Descent into Darkness (Netflix)

voted ...

NB: if i haven't written you back and you've submitted a ballot, i haven't seen it!

10 ballots and over 90 shows already voted for. Consensus is going to be hard to come by and every vote is likely to sway the final totals!

Even though I think I might vote for it based on an astonishing math video: https://newstechtrend.com/veritasium_a_story_of_youtube_propaganda_i4540

i will submit a ballot before tuesday feb 1, don't worry.

did nobody nominate?

The Great s2 (Hulu)

The Great is eligible to vote for, though no one nominated.

12 ballots! If you are having a lazy end of your week, maybe throw together a ten show ballot and send it in?

Leee: I learned about that after nominating it. It's really disappointing.

Now tracks & album voting is out of the way, I'll get a ballot in next week sometime

Desperately need to watch before the deadline: How to with John Wilson (S2); Joe Pera (S3); Yellowjackets (S1).

If I am to watch one other thing out of The Chair and Inside Job, which should it be?

The Chair is skippable. Fast watch and I always like Sandra Oh, but it doesn't go much further than mildly amusing imo

And I don't think I'm getting a chance to watch anything else before the deadline, so I'll try to get my ballot in shortly

i would strongly recommend not getting too uptight about doing your homework, i'm happy just to hear what you saw and enjoyed this year without cramming!

Okay, 14 ballots and one week! Let's get em in!

xp I hear you, but equally cramming is a good coping resource for the long month of January.

Watched both in the end and though The Chair stretched credibility, I can't not love anything Jay Duplass is in. Inside Job not so much for me, alas.

> Handmade: Britain's Best Woodworker

who was the only other person on the world who was watching this? i ask because there's a thing on quest tonight that sounds like a cross between this and The Repair Shop. Kings of the Wood it's called, people make wooden things for people.

(it was forks. there was another thing j blades hosted that also rings a bell... Jay's Yorkshire Workshop:

"At their workshop in Bradford, Jay Blades and a team of volunteers build beautiful furniture for deserving causes and local people.")

i'll look for that.

Hey we only have 15 ballots! We gotta get this to at least 50 or so to make it worth anyone's while? Where's your ballot?

Voted! Psyched for this.

I didn't get to 25 but had more shows than I thought.

Voted!

Late to this - sorry. Would nominate Showtrial (BBC).
There's also The Serpent (BBC)
Bloodlands (BBC)
You Don't Know Me (BBC)
The Masked Singer UK s3 (ITV)
Time (BBC)
Ridley Road (BBC)

Not watched them all, apols if any aren't in 2021

Will send in my ballot!

I just voted. First time voting in this poll, but for some reason, I watched a lot of current TV this year.

Also Back to Life s2 (bbc)

In My Skin s2 (BBC3)

as noted earlier, I'm happy to take unnominated shows as long as they aired somewhere for the first time in 2021 but you'll want to campaign here if you expect anyone to vote for them but you!

I should have nominated Guerra de Vecinos aka The War Next Door on Netflix, but forgot to, so join me in voting for it if you care to!

Not nominated, but Made for Love (HBO) was good & underrated.

for any of my fellow nba heads and ILH posters out there i would like to leave a reminder for the No Dunks youtube show, i know there's still some old starters heads out there

Some stuff (mostly Youtube channels) that I neglected to nominate but voted for:

Bonding (Netflix)

It's Okay To Be Smart

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Jj-sJ78O6M

Playstation Access

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KvorlE7RLw

outsidexbox

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJPpv3Rbm1I

Animal Wonders Montana

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Z44Q1RPdCo

lol totally forgot that i watched and enjoyed amazon’s “made for love” this year

will vote this weekend, don’t worry

Voted!

I ignored this until now but I voted. Things that I voted for that weren't nominated and are all great:

The Great s2 - Hulu (wtf people, this show is...great)
Genera+ion s1 - HBO (RIP)
Love Life s2 - HBO
Made for Love s1 - HBO

Would probably have voted for Miracle Workers s3 but it's not yet on a service that I have access to.

28 ballots! Beat the rush and get yours in today so that I don't bother you over the weekend!

(BTW if you submitted a ballot and haven't heard back from me, I haven't seen it... please resend!)

glad you spammed this in the threads because i absolutely didnt see until right now! rushing a ballot together

Elvis poll was similar turnout iirc

We're aiming high here.

just sent a haphazard ballot

Slapped one together. Feel good about it.

I think I'll do one tomorrow

Final day to vote!

Don’t make me individually call out everybody who took part last year and hasn’t voted!

As is typical for me, a lot of my '21 viewing was of series from '20 or earlier years. We get around to things when we get around to them. But I slapped together a ballot of things on the nomination list that I liked to varying degrees, fwiw.

sent!

Okay, last call! Anybody else placing a ballot?

How about you, imago and groovypanda and abcsfk and Chinaski and Old Lunch and gyac and woof and Lavator Shemmelpeck and Thermo and Simon and jaymc and darraghmac and symsymsym and billstevejim and DJP and danzig and zchyrs and chap and jon/via/chi? Y'all hung around the thread plenty last year and no one gets in without a receipt this go round!

Okay, will close this in the AM if nobody else is coming!

We're closed! Working on tabulation now.

Tabulation also done and we're locked! If someone wants to open a campaigning thread, please feel free; otherwise I'll pop a link to the poll roll out when it gets going sometime in February.

What's the point of campaigning if the tabulation's done?

^my favorite woody guthrie song

haha

We ended up with 46 ballots and everybody's #1 making it into the 77. It's magic!

Will the rollout be next week forks?

Mmmmmmm likely need one more week to do organization

No worries, just curious

Yeah, i'm in a bit of a workstorm here so this may need to sit until late Feb/early March. apologies.

take all the time you need! we'll enjoy the rollout just as much then as we would now! (just promise you'll link it here so i don't miss it bc i never remember to check new answers)

Absolutely

Any status update on this yet?

LEAVE FORKS ALONE

no, my bad. I'll work on this over the weekend and see if we can get it rolling next week.

Have I missed the rollout or has it not happened yet?

Not yet. I assume forks has other stuff going on but I'll also add my non-pushy wish to see the results eventually

Yeah, looking forward to the results but no worries if it doesn't happen for another three, four or whatever months

Hi!

yeah i quit ilx for awhile. will be back soon

it's no frills but it should be up before the end of the year
ILX’s Top 77 Television and Streaming Video Series of 2021

yay forks! glad it's happening :)