For my list I tried to balance my personal favorites with what I thought were this year's best shows. So this is mostly what my ranking is going to try and represent. I haven't watched all shows I wanted to but out of those I have a very few could not make the list. Which ones?
Yeah, no, this 'The Good Wife' tv tribute is not making my list. People can stay overrating it and its main actress Kerry Washington I don't care. The performances are uninspired and I have no idea where they keep scraping out their storylines from and I don't really care, either. Olivia Pope is just a carbon-copy of so many other female characters we've seen on TV before, as well. And then comes the fact just how incredibly basic this show is at its core and no amount of "edgy" affairs or twists are going to change that.
Unbiased, it's not awful. But this list is a mix of my personal favorites and what I found to be the best shows this year so I can't include it.
This teenie sensation will not make my list for obvious reasons. It's already so flawed in its production and basic, one-dimensional writing that every further step is built on a mistake. But I will remain watching and you can stay mad at the fact that this show is, at times, more exciting and thrilling than your favorite show and its male cast continues to succeed in keeping me glued onto the screen.
I suppose I appreciate how it keeps finding new creatures to focus on and tries to expand its fantasy universe in an interesting way. It also has a killer title score, yes. 'Teen Wolf' isn't awful - it's just completely generic. If you can deal with that and like to drool over twinks men and if you want to just turn your brain off to expierence a few thrilling episodes now and then this isn't too bad of an option.
The first half of this season has been somewhat better than usual because it was much more character-focused. Ultimately, though, it's teenmertainment at its very definition, full of horrendous performances, cringeworthy campiness and also keeps throwing around red herrings like our planet would not suffer from resource depletion and overfishing.
I'm not sure why I'm still watching it. Sometime a few years ago I started, got hooked and just sticked to it even if it never really was good. Everyone's allowed a few guilty pleasures and here's one of mine.
Kids, there was a time that I enjoyed a show telling the story of How I Met Your Mother. But let me tell you kids that that time now feels even further away then the day Jane Fonda was born (next week). Aside from the awful season premise that held the show back
Due to the fact this is a show I've watched right from the beginning I sticked to it. It's normal to get invested into characters after such a long time but the past seasons have done such a fine job at erasing almost any sympathy I've had for this gang I found myself caring only very little about its ending. And why should I? The jokes have been repetetive and stupid for years, its running-gags were tiresome and this year's stunt the writers have pulled was awful. Fans tried to defend it but everyone could tell they either, a) didn't want to admit its tragicness like monsters sheep b) never put at least one productive thought into the show they kept watching.
They spent seasons building up Ted & Robyn just to publicly deny them ever getting together and then spending seasons building up Robyn & Barney. Heck, they even had the ENTIRE last season set at their wedding weekend.
Well, guess how it ended (spoiler ahead if you couldn't guess)? We met the mother only in the very last season and realize that she's actually becoming the best character on the show in such a small run. Fast-forward to the finale and we watch her die (welp!) and just have to deal with the fact that the writers are giving Ted and themselves the most convenient opt-out: Let's get him back with Robyn!
Well, kids, cool for them but that's the story about How 'How I Met Your Mother' Did Not Make It.
