– Matthew SingerĪ whodunit wrapped inside another whodunit? There’s an eccentric genius at work in the third season of Steve Martin’s inspired collaboration with John Hoffman. But even as it got increasingly hard to watch, Barry was equally difficult to turn away from, right up to its bitter, bleak, painfully ironic end. It doesn’t quite stick the landing, relying on a few convenient plot contrivances and a disorienting time-jump to get where it wants to go. Amazingly, though, when Barry wants to be funny, it’s still funnier than just about anything else on TV – see Fred Armisen’s hilariously gory botched assassination attempt in episode 3. Everyone is down bad : Hader’s titular hitman-turned-actor is in prison for murdering a cop his on-off girlfriend’s dreams of stardom are as dead as the man she killed in self-defense and his mentor (Henry Winkler) is wracked with paranoia and narcissism. Indeed, by its fourth and final season, the uneasy balance that gave the show its singular tone had tipped almost completely into despair. □ The 100 greatest ever TV shows you need to bingeĪs Bill Hader’s dark comedy went along, the darkness threatened to fully subsume the comedy part of the equation. □ The best TV and streaming shows of 2024 (so far) So clear your schedule and get to watching, because the TV deluge isn’t going to slow any time soon. There’s 41 of them, and each one is totally binge-worthy. We’ve ranked the most elite television series of 2023, from heavy-hitters like Succession, The Last of Us and The Bear to under-the-radar gems such as Amazon’s surreal I’m a Virgo, Fox’s hilarious Colin From Accounts or FreeVee’s leftfield hit Jury Duty. Then you never find time for the new stuff, because there’s simply too much, and just give up, throw in the remote and rewatch Seinfeld for the 75th time. Keeping up with even a fraction of it can be overwhelming: as soon as you finish one must-see show, another three pop up, possibly on platforms you don’t even subscribe to. You can argue if it’s the best era for television, but it’s almost certainly the era with the most television. If nothing else, 2023 further confirmed that we’re living in the era of peak TV.
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