Posting twice in less than a week? ASTOUNDING, I'd say.
Just going to do a little memeing.
Top 5 TV shows of 2017:
1) Black Sails--I'm pretty sure anyone who has read my DW in the last two years gets that I love this show. You likely also got that while I found it horribly painful to see it end, it would have been difficult for it to have surprised me more or made me happier in how it ended. Incredible acting and writing from beginning to end.
2) The Exorcist--For a show where I had reservations when it was announced--really? they were going to make a TV series out of those movies?--it's proved to be not just great horror (a difficult thing to find at the best of times), but just great storytelling for both the new characters each season and the main characters we're following throughout the series. The second season finale is this week, and I am optimistic it will be renewed for a 3rd season (ratings have been steadily better this season than last). I can't wait.
3) Legion--It's a weird show, but if you're going to have a surreal, non-time-specific, reality bending, mindfuck of a show in the Marvel universe, this is the character to do it with. I know they have limitations on how they can connect this with the larger X-Men universe--and who knows how the merger of Disney and Fox will affect any future seasons--but I'm looking forward to seeing how they deal with a character who is so fractured and so powerful, where one feeds into the other.
4) American Gods--I don't know that I can say anything more than what has already been written about this show. It's a beautiful series full of beautiful people. It's an amazing realization of the first 1/3 of the book, and I dearly hope that Bryan Fuller and Michael Green leaving won't scupper getting to see more of it. (I don't see Starz letting it die, but I've also not seen much in the way of hopeful news on that count recently.)
5) Mindhunter--A fictionalized version of John Douglas's book by the same name, this is incredibly well-done series about the early days of profiling and study of serial killers, and how that affected the people doing this work. It's got great performances (for both those playing our protagonists and the serial killers themselves), but it's also head-to-toe David Fincher.
I suddenly realized that without intending this at all, all of these either have leads or prominent secondary characters who are queer. And, okay, only one of them is a network show--but that's one of them with a LEAD QUEER CHARACTER. Hm.
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Just going to do a little memeing.
Top 5 TV shows of 2017:
1) Black Sails--I'm pretty sure anyone who has read my DW in the last two years gets that I love this show. You likely also got that while I found it horribly painful to see it end, it would have been difficult for it to have surprised me more or made me happier in how it ended. Incredible acting and writing from beginning to end.
2) The Exorcist--For a show where I had reservations when it was announced--really? they were going to make a TV series out of those movies?--it's proved to be not just great horror (a difficult thing to find at the best of times), but just great storytelling for both the new characters each season and the main characters we're following throughout the series. The second season finale is this week, and I am optimistic it will be renewed for a 3rd season (ratings have been steadily better this season than last). I can't wait.
3) Legion--It's a weird show, but if you're going to have a surreal, non-time-specific, reality bending, mindfuck of a show in the Marvel universe, this is the character to do it with. I know they have limitations on how they can connect this with the larger X-Men universe--and who knows how the merger of Disney and Fox will affect any future seasons--but I'm looking forward to seeing how they deal with a character who is so fractured and so powerful, where one feeds into the other.
4) American Gods--I don't know that I can say anything more than what has already been written about this show. It's a beautiful series full of beautiful people. It's an amazing realization of the first 1/3 of the book, and I dearly hope that Bryan Fuller and Michael Green leaving won't scupper getting to see more of it. (I don't see Starz letting it die, but I've also not seen much in the way of hopeful news on that count recently.)
5) Mindhunter--A fictionalized version of John Douglas's book by the same name, this is incredibly well-done series about the early days of profiling and study of serial killers, and how that affected the people doing this work. It's got great performances (for both those playing our protagonists and the serial killers themselves), but it's also head-to-toe David Fincher.
I suddenly realized that without intending this at all, all of these either have leads or prominent secondary characters who are queer. And, okay, only one of them is a network show--but that's one of them with a LEAD QUEER CHARACTER. Hm.
