TV Of The Year 2024 - Part 1: I See The Title, Sorry Gave Up, & Lost It
Welcome once more to Uncle Kev's TV Review of the Year. You'll find links to previous year's lists below. This list comes in a few instalments, starting with these three sub categrories.
1) I See The Title… (being TV shows whose names don’t even ring a bell, just a few months later)
Repeating a subset I coined last year, here is the TV that we watched and that has to be counted as hours we’ll never get back. Though, as My 1975 Diary (now available as a calendar) makes clear, I have been watching way too much forgettable TV for fifty years or more, and I’m sure I’ll continue doing so.
The Way (above)- This was a very silly project written by Michael Sheen, featuring a character called The Welsh Finder General. I’m making it sound better than it was.
Stillwater Fell - David Tennant was in this. Luckily he was also in something good that appears at the top end of this year’s chart.
The Perfect Couple - Nicole Kidman is trying to play the elderly matriarch of a family. Which, unless she lays off the surgery, she’ll never manage. Another whodunnit which was a whocares.
Mammoth - Welsh comedian gets thawed out and resurrects his set from twenty years ago. Actually not totally awful.
The Signal - This was German and set partly in space, but somehow I forget it
Apple Never Falls - The mum goes missing, no one knows where. I will never know.
Sunny - The one about the robot?
Desperate Measures - Nope, I have no memory of this
Bodkin - I’m not even going to look this up.
2) Sorry Gave Up (being TV shows that we started off liking, then when it came to seeing them through to the finale found that we couldn’t manage it because…)
Renegade Nell (above) - turned out it was for kids
Eric - didn’t care
3 Body Problem - was bored
Alma’s Not Normal - just wasn’t finding it funny
The Penguin - didn't resemble the Penguin
Masters Of The Air - if you're not interested in boys in planes...
Day Of The Jackal - it was turning into too long of a day
Elsbeth - endearing but over simple
Kaos - all very clever but unengaging
Lady In The Lake - parts of this were excellent, maybe we will finish someday
The Australian Office - it was shit
3) Lost It (being TV shows that were once good but went south)
What If 2 - I liked season 1 of this, because they were stand alone stories, each of which presented a What If notion and explored it in an entertaining half hour story. This season was an arc which, if you didn’t like where it was going from the start, you were stuck with. A very expensive disappointment.
The Outlaws 3 - I don’t know what went wrong with Stephen Merchant’s comedy drama, which had been a Top 10 show for me in the past, but this year it was like a parody of itself and failed miserably.
The Bear 2 & 3 - I’ll be honest, I didn’t like this when it started, then it threw in a couple of the best episodes of telly ever. Then it was back to the shouting and being miserable for reasons I could never quite glean.
Ted Lasso 2 & 3 - Now this is a weird one, because we only saw Ted Lasso series 1 for the first time this year, and it would have made the Top Ten easily. But season 2, and now season 3 which we’ve only just started, are dreadful. They lose whatever magic that first season possessed. And they include the worst Christmas episode I think any respectable TV show has ever had.
Which takes us to..
My Top TV of... 2021 2020 2019 2018 • 2017 • 2016 • 2015 • 2014 • 2013 • 2011 • 2009
Prince Of Denmark Street - Amazon - Etsy - Kindle
Midsummer Nights Dream Team - Amazon - Etsy
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