Saturday, June 23, 2018

Is It Too Late to Publish my Top 25 TV shows of 2017?

The answer is probably yes. Which I plan to ignore and put the list here.

No extended discussion as to the why's and how comes? I'm hoping to turn this annual (I'm LESS than a year late with this) write (sic) of passage into an eBook called "One Man's Guide to Binge-Watching TV: The Lifetime Edition." I plan to 'scoop' myself by releasing the list annually on my birthday. And that will continue next month with the 2018 edition. Check out Amazon in about five months to see IF I succeeded. After that, the book will be updated on my birthday and then the release here later in July of just the list. But here's the 2017 list, at least.

TOP 25 or close enough

  1. British TV Game Shows with scoring rules too complicated for me to figure out UK
    • QI
    • Duck Quacks Don't Echo
    • 8 of 10 Cats Countdown
    • Would I Lie to You
    • Big Fat Quiz 
    • Room 101
  2. Our Ex Wife UK
  3. Snatch UK
  4. Marvel's Luke Cage
  5. Amazing Hotels Life Beyond the Lobby UK
  6. Talk Shows with foreign-born hosts
    • Last Week Tonight with John Oliver 
    • Full Frontal with Samantha Bee 
    • The Daily Show with Trevor Noah 
    • The Jim Jefferies Show
    • The Last Leg with Adam Hills UK
  7. Brockmire
  8. Orphan Back CDN
  9. Spies in the Wild UK
  10. The Good Place
  11. Bosch
  12. Gotham
  13. Madame Secretary
  14. Pain, Pus & Poison The Search for Modern Medicines UK
  15. Superior Donuts
  16. Good Girls Revolt
  17. Sweet Vicious
  18. Dark Matter
  19. Marvel's Agents of SHIELD
  20. Sneaky Pete
  21. Startup
  22. Truth & Iliza
  23. Stitchers
  24. Tarzan and Jane tie Star Wars Rebels
  25. Designated Survivor
  26. Tyrant
  27. Newton's Law AU
  28. GLOW
  29. Girl Meets World
  30. Quarry
  31. The Last Ship
  32. Queen of the South
  33. DC Comics
    • Lucifer
    • Supergirl
    • Flash
    • Arrow
  34. White Gold UK
  35. Shark Tank US/AU
  36. Not Going Out UK
  37. Killljoys CDN
  38. The Night Shift
  39. Travelers
  40. Adam Ruins Everything
  41. Incorporated
  42. Real Time with Bill Maher
  43. Hack My Life
  44. The Secret Life of the Zoo UK tie The Zoo US

HONOURABLE MENTION

  1. Japanology JPN
  2. Chance UK
  3. Salvation CDN
  4. Rosewood
  5. I Love Dick
  6. Ideas, ideas, ideas ... TV shows that might have been genius
    • Pure Genius
    • APB
  7. Private Eyes CDN

GUILTY PLEASURES

  1. Anthony Bourdain - Parts Unknown (A truly tragic story)
  2. Toronto TFC (for Sebastian Giovinco) CDN
  3. Vanessa Gianfrancisco  on One World Kitchen CDN
  4. Downward Dog for the dog animation despite the horrible everything else
  5. Aisha Dee on The Bold Type
  6. The Catch (It's a caper show, 'nuff said ... here)

WORST

  1. CNN
  2. Gap Year
  3. Kevin Can Wait
  4. Brooklyn Nine-Nine
  5. Kim's Convenience
  6. MacGyver
  7. I Live With Models
  8. The Odd Couple
  9. Taken

DISAPPOINTING

  1. Time travel TV
    • Timeless
    • Frequency
  2. Notorious (how could you screw up having Piper Perabo)
  3. Westworld
  4. You Me Her (after a decent first season)
  5. Riverdale
  6. Powerless
  7. The Good Fight
  8. Imaginary Mary
(If you're counting, I think that's 78 good mentions to 17 not good mentions ... for a top 25 list)

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