Even if the content ultimately didn’t connect (which, it absolutely did), I can’t possibly fathom putting Midnight Mass on a “worst” list simply because the performances alone make it worthwhile. Everyone is phenomenal across the board, but Hamish Linklater is a fucking revelation in it.

I have read anonymous accounts of sex addicts who are average people who spend all night masturbating to porn, paying for prostitutes, and generally pushing their families to the back burner and engaging in riskier and riskier behaviors (i.e. like an addict) until it bites them on the ass. I am far more likely to…

Definitely both, sex addiction is an excuse for assholes and Franco is an asshole.

Exactly. I think the author underestimates just how raw that show cut for anyone familiar with Catholic communities gone nuts. Yes, "humans are the real monsters" isn't original but it ain't false either. Beth Keane was the reall monster.

As someone who has come out of fundamentalist religion and is still unpacking a lot of things and realizing just how abusive fundamentalist churches are, Midnight Mass connected with me.

The “godly” people who tell three and four year-old children that they deserve to burn in fire because of their humanity really are…

I didn’t love Falcon and the Winter Soldier, maybe it’s even bad (I think an uneven okay), but worst seems harsh. This is faint... it’s not even praise, but it was ultimately forgettable and worst for me is something that sticks.

Why does something need to be subtle to be good? Midnight Mass might have been borderline polemical but giving a story full barrells shouldn’t be a bad thing by default. Plenty of great art are screeds. And pulling the “had they not heard of vampires?” line would also disqualify most OTHER vampire tale, as well as…

I like it.

Sex Lives of College Girls is amazing, I’d bump off Mare of Easttown which was only carried by some great acting.

How did not a single person pick Dave in their top 15? I get that there’s tons of shows out there, but Dave’s probably one of the best shows to come out in the last decade. I highly recommend it to anyone that hasn’t seen it.

I really like it.

Frankly, one of the stronger years in recent memory on the TV front. Bangers on basically every channel (I’d even toss Star Trek: Lower Decks in as a dark horse candidate).

Sad lament for The Expanse: it could never catch a break on these end-of-the-year lists because its seasons largely began in mid-December and ran into February (at its longest). It was always either too early to include, or too old to remember. Don’t know where this final arc will land within the show's run. I think…

I’m really glad that For All Mankind is getting such strong props in these end of year lists. It’s been one of my favourite shows since its premier and I can’t wait to see where they take it in Season 3.

It’s a shame that the ballots are not presented with commentary. I would like to see a full-throated defense of The Challenge or The Real Housewives.

Rude to Ted Lasso. The other shows are cool, though.

yeah, one can’t blame Kidman for repeating the line. plus they get asked the same damn questions over and over again.

This cast looks pretty great, and I really am enjoying and looking forward to Eggers’s continued commitment to telling really interesting stories involving stinky-lookin’ people. Ethan Hawke, I should not have been surprised given his work in both The Good Lord Bird *and* Reality Bites, looks to fit naturally in this…

The idiot plot of No Way Home puts it dead last for me, specifically that Tony Stark would bequeath his glasses and WMDs to Peter (not Banner, or any other responsible or knowledgeable people) without any instructions, training, oversight — is beyond stupid. Plus they play it for laughs, which ok, Marvel, ha ha, gotta…

The “What’s up Danger” scene is a thing of pure, unadulterated beauty.