2022 Year-In-Review: TV I Watched
Jan. 3rd, 2023 12:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chuckroI logged almost every movie I watched this year (30) which I don’t think I’ve reliably done in the past; but not a single one was in a theater. I watched 26 seasons of various TV shows spread out across Netflix, Hulu, Amazon, HBOMax and Disney+.
Things that stood out included:
Cartoons: Star Trek: Lower Decks is a delight. What If? was respectable and Disenchantment stayed pretty decent. The third season of Love, Death & Robots had two, maybe three good episodes.
Superheroes: On the DC side we have a season each of DC's Legends of Tomorrow, Supergirl, The Flash, and Peacemaker. On the Marvel side is Hawkeye, Moon Knight, The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, Ms. Marvel, and She-Hulk: Attorney At Law. Netflix brought us a third season of Umbrella Academy and I also enjoyed The Imperfects, which no one else seemed to. The Arrowverse is ending with the final season of The Flash this year and Marvel seems to be slowing down on the TV shows for a bit, so this was an interesting year for “superhero TV.”
Comedy: The first season of Ted Lasso was great, and that’s as someone who doesn’t like sports. The second season of Dollface was pretty strong. Resident Alien and Maggie were both flawed and it’s debatable whether I’ll bother watching any more of them. What We Do in the Shadows and Our Flag Means Death both entertained me, but I acknowledge they’re an acquired taste.
Dark Fantasy: I really enjoyed the first season of The Sandman, thought Wednesday was good, and had middling opinions of the fourth season of Stranger Things. And I’m really glad I rewatched the first season of Russian Doll (which I liked better the second time around!) before watching the second.
I’m coming into 2023 with a backlog of HBOMax superhero shows and (still) several Star Trek spinoffs, plus a bunch of sitcoms and dramas I’m curious about.
(ARR’s limited Youtube time shifted back to Minecraft videos. He watched a lot of Pokemon, and added Alien TV to his rotation with Captain Underpants, Storybots, and Larva on Netflix.)
Things that stood out included:
Cartoons: Star Trek: Lower Decks is a delight. What If? was respectable and Disenchantment stayed pretty decent. The third season of Love, Death & Robots had two, maybe three good episodes.
Superheroes: On the DC side we have a season each of DC's Legends of Tomorrow, Supergirl, The Flash, and Peacemaker. On the Marvel side is Hawkeye, Moon Knight, The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, Ms. Marvel, and She-Hulk: Attorney At Law. Netflix brought us a third season of Umbrella Academy and I also enjoyed The Imperfects, which no one else seemed to. The Arrowverse is ending with the final season of The Flash this year and Marvel seems to be slowing down on the TV shows for a bit, so this was an interesting year for “superhero TV.”
Comedy: The first season of Ted Lasso was great, and that’s as someone who doesn’t like sports. The second season of Dollface was pretty strong. Resident Alien and Maggie were both flawed and it’s debatable whether I’ll bother watching any more of them. What We Do in the Shadows and Our Flag Means Death both entertained me, but I acknowledge they’re an acquired taste.
Dark Fantasy: I really enjoyed the first season of The Sandman, thought Wednesday was good, and had middling opinions of the fourth season of Stranger Things. And I’m really glad I rewatched the first season of Russian Doll (which I liked better the second time around!) before watching the second.
I’m coming into 2023 with a backlog of HBOMax superhero shows and (still) several Star Trek spinoffs, plus a bunch of sitcoms and dramas I’m curious about.
(ARR’s limited Youtube time shifted back to Minecraft videos. He watched a lot of Pokemon, and added Alien TV to his rotation with Captain Underpants, Storybots, and Larva on Netflix.)
