2023 Year-In-Review: TV I Watched
Jan. 3rd, 2024 08:23 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chuckroI feel like a lot of what I watched this year was less memorable than some other years. I watched 23 seasons of various shows (spread across six different streaming platforms) and 25 movies, including TWO (Dungeons & Dragons and Barbie) in the theater!
Things that stood out included:
Cartoons: Young Justice: Phantoms stays solid, but you need to start the series at the beginning despite the changing titles. Ducktales (2017) and Disenchantment both were getting tired but wrapped up solidly. My Adventures With Superman is incredibly cute. Scott Pilgrim Takes Off is definitively a sequel to the comic/movie, but fun. The Dragon Prince…still wants to be Avatar but isn’t.
Superheroes: We bid farewell to the Arrowverse with the last season of The Flash, and I caught up on two seasons of Superman & Lois. Gotham Knights was a fun one-off in the same genre. I watched the last two half-seasons of Titans and appreciate that wrap-up; I still have half a season of Doom Patrol left from that particular shared universe. I didn’t actually watch any Marvel shows this year. (I also watched mostly superhero movies, with a smattering of other stuff.)
Comedy: The second seasons of Ted Lasso and The Sex Lives of College Girls were both weaker than the first, as in both cases the tone shifted and the writers needed to come up with more to do. I’m hoping What We Do in the Shadows comes up with something new when I get around to the most recent season, because that’s getting tired. The second season of Good Omens was an interim bit of faffing about between actual plots. Up Here was an entertaining example of turning a stage musical into a miniseries and I was here for it.
Sci-Fi/Fantasy: We finally got around to the second season of Star Trek: Discovery, having fallen massively behind. I also watched The Bastard Son & The Devil Himself, which I’ll admit was a mess that leaves off on a cliffhanger but I enjoyed it.
I’m hoping that the various strikes in 2023 will push back enough things to let me clear some backlog. There’s still a lot of superhero TV and three different Star Trek series for me to catch up on.
(ARR re-watched a lot of Alien TV as background noise for months, watched a bunch of Pokemon, and then discovered Adventure Time and has been binging it.)
Things that stood out included:
Cartoons: Young Justice: Phantoms stays solid, but you need to start the series at the beginning despite the changing titles. Ducktales (2017) and Disenchantment both were getting tired but wrapped up solidly. My Adventures With Superman is incredibly cute. Scott Pilgrim Takes Off is definitively a sequel to the comic/movie, but fun. The Dragon Prince…still wants to be Avatar but isn’t.
Superheroes: We bid farewell to the Arrowverse with the last season of The Flash, and I caught up on two seasons of Superman & Lois. Gotham Knights was a fun one-off in the same genre. I watched the last two half-seasons of Titans and appreciate that wrap-up; I still have half a season of Doom Patrol left from that particular shared universe. I didn’t actually watch any Marvel shows this year. (I also watched mostly superhero movies, with a smattering of other stuff.)
Comedy: The second seasons of Ted Lasso and The Sex Lives of College Girls were both weaker than the first, as in both cases the tone shifted and the writers needed to come up with more to do. I’m hoping What We Do in the Shadows comes up with something new when I get around to the most recent season, because that’s getting tired. The second season of Good Omens was an interim bit of faffing about between actual plots. Up Here was an entertaining example of turning a stage musical into a miniseries and I was here for it.
Sci-Fi/Fantasy: We finally got around to the second season of Star Trek: Discovery, having fallen massively behind. I also watched The Bastard Son & The Devil Himself, which I’ll admit was a mess that leaves off on a cliffhanger but I enjoyed it.
I’m hoping that the various strikes in 2023 will push back enough things to let me clear some backlog. There’s still a lot of superhero TV and three different Star Trek series for me to catch up on.
(ARR re-watched a lot of Alien TV as background noise for months, watched a bunch of Pokemon, and then discovered Adventure Time and has been binging it.)
