The 10 Best TV Shows Of 2025

What is popping? Welcome back to the end-of-year roundup where we take a look back at what television brought us over the last 12 months. From the stuff that was so good I could barely believe it, all the way down to the stuff that was so bad it had me standing in front of my TV like this, bro. Lots to tackle this time around. There's been a lot this year. And boy, I have a lot of things to say.

But today, we're going to focus on the good stuff, which I am very excited about because 2025 was a really strong year for TV. One of the strongest of the decade so far. Like seriously, I kind of had a hard time making this year's list because there were just too many bangers. The first half of the year especially was moving crazy. It was raining great TV shows; I could barely keep up.

Surprisingly though, a lot of the shows I expected to be great and to make the top 10 just turned out to be super lame or just kind of okay. Yes, I'm looking at you, Daredevil: Born Again. That has actually worked out in my favor, weirdly, because most of my favorite shows of the year were complete surprises to me. So, I had a great time.

And it goes without saying, there were a lot of awful shows this year, too. And believe me, we are going to talk about that in the next video. But now is the moment I tell you what the gems were this year, and I'm ready. We're going to talk about all of it.

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So, let's not waste any more time. You know the drill. Get yourself a cozy blanket, grab your favorite snack, and let's hold hands together as we take a look at the 10 best TV shows of 2025.

Starting with number 10, The Studio. Consistent with the theme of the top 10 videos from previous years, we are starting this year's list with an Apple TV Plus series. Apple TV has been on fire since it launched. Over the course of the last four years, almost all of the best shows on television is coming from them. And I can already tell you this isn't the last time you'll be seeing that in this video. But among their new and ongoing gems this year, the platform brought us The Studio, a comedy created by and starring Seth Rogen as Matt Remick, an executive at a gigantic movie studio in Hollywood, who was promoted to studio head when the CEO decides to step down. As he takes over the company's operations with excitement, determined to be a studio head that supports art, Matt's vision is very quickly forced to fall apart when he realizes that his job has less to do with supporting art and more to do with pandering to people who do not care about art but want to use it for profit. And we watch him as he brutally struggles to find a middle ground between those two worlds. And I love the messaging behind this because at its core, The Studio is a sharp critique of the current state of the film industry made by people from the industry who are probably really fed up with it. And while it is a satire full of celebrities making fun of themselves, it's also a very intelligent commentary on how broken the system is in Hollywood. I love the idea that Matt slowly realizes that his job is essentially to make good projects worse in order to satisfy other parties within the corporation. The show effortlessly makes the point that the industry is broken because the system rewards the wrong outcomes all the time because that's the big thing with how the industry is represented in the show. Most satires want you to feel smarter than the characters. The Studio doesn't do that. Everyone in this show is quite competent at their job. They're ambitious, overworked, but rational within their lane. And that's kind of the nightmare of it. It's just people trying to make the most quote unquote reasonable decisions they can make, but decisions that are pushed toward the interest of a capitalist agenda, which in turn slowly murders art in broad daylight. The Studio, despite its slight tone and its hilarious episodes, feels like hundreds of people from the industry mourning the industry. But it does it in such a funny way that you can't take your eyes off of it cuz the cast is amazing. Seth Rogen, Katherine Hahn, who literally never misses, Catherine O'Hara, Chase Wonders, Ike Barinholtz, Brian Cranston, everybody is amazing. And that's without even mentioning all of the hilarious self-deprecating cameos from Zoë Kravitz, Martin Scorsese, and Charlie Day to Zac Efron, Paul Dano, and even Zack Snyder is in there. It's like Seth Rogen pulled out his phone and called everybody he's ever known in Hollywood for a favor. Like, this series is a revolving door of big industry people coming in to complain about the idiocy of the state of the industry as well. And I loved every second of it. Not only that, but the show is also really well-directed and full of very resilient performances. I'm mainly thinking of an episode that revolves around a movie having to shoot a trailer that never cuts. And the episode itself is a trailer that never cuts. And I just love how meta the show gets with these things. It makes fun of filmmaking while also being super nerdy about it. It's the perfect representation of people criticizing something they clearly love. I had absolutely no expectations for it, but The Studio was a great time. It's one of the smartest comedies of the year, and if you love cinema and you want a fairly accurate look at how messed up things are in Hollywood, all while enjoying your time with hilarious sitcom characters, give it a watch. You will not regret it.

Number nine, Invincible Season 3. Oh, hell yeah. The most brutal superhero show on TV is back, my guy. And this time, we got a full season without a stupid two-month break in the middle of it that completely kills the momentum with audiences. Yes, I'm looking at you, Season 2. What the [ __ ] was that? Invincible has been consistently great with its storytelling. Season 1 was absolutely brilliant. Season 2 was fantastic, although not as tight narratively, but Season 3 improves, and it's pretty much on par with the jaw-dropping moments of Season 1. The season of Invincible was metal as [ __ ]. It is big, it is bold, it is brutal. The stakes have never felt higher. The writing has never felt stronger. It feels like the buildup to the inevitable Viltrumite Infinity War is getting more and more tense. Like, the tension is palpable. It's also a season where characters didn't feel safe and we are starting to lose very important people who tragically die and others whose values no longer align with Mark's. The character arcs really do come to fruition this season. From revenge plots, romantic storylines, or general growth, this is by far the most impactful season of the show in that regard. And even aside from that, there is an insane amount of highlights to Invincible Season 3. I've never read the comics, so some of them were moments I had only just kind of heard of, but was really excited to see, and I feel like the show just refused to disappoint with it. The Conquest battle at the end of the season was beyond anything I had hoped it would be. It blew my expectations out the water. Jeffrey Dean Morgan was terrifying as Conquest. The "I'm so lonely" monologue sent chills down my spine and is still burned into my brain. "I want you to resist. I'm not here to save you. I'm not here to spread the greatness of the Viltrum Empire." The phrase, "I can see the future. You don't live to see tomorrow" is the most gangster ass line of dialogue to be uttered in 2025. Adam Eve unlocking a glimpse of her true power was massive. The prison escape with Omni-Man, the Invincible War, like this season goes so hard from beginning to end. It just moves from great moment to great moment. You barely get a chance to breathe and everything feels exciting. There's a lot of moving pieces to this season, too. And everything moves very fast, but it always feels earned. And just when you think the show cannot possibly shock you more, it goes, "Oh yeah, watch this." And then it does something absolutely [ __ ] crazy that changes everything. Nah, man. There's no way around it. Invincible Season 3 was [ __ ] spectacular. It was 100% worth the wait, and the way it ends has already gotten me so pumped for Season 4. I, I just cannot wait. If for some reason you haven't watched Invincible or you're not caught up to Season 3, stop everything you're doing and go watch it now. I'm, I'm wait, I'm waiting. Go watch it now. I'm not kidding. Go watch it.

Number eight, Cassandra. Listen, if the last 10 years have proven anything in the world of filmmaking, it is that Germans do not [ __ ] around with TV. For my favorite show of all time, Dark, 1899, Babylon Berlin, and Clara. Every single year has given us at least one season of top-tier German television and once again another year, another one of them making the top 10. Cassandra is a German series released in February that tells the extremely creepy and unsettling story of a family that moves into an old house that has been uninhabited for 50 years. Once they move in, they accidentally reactivate an old artificial intelligence called Cassandra that serves as a house assistant for the owners that can run the entire home. Cassandra has been deactivated since the '70s. And now that she has a new family to serve, she is determined to do a great job. But things begin to take a very dark turn when the family begins to discover that behind her sympathetic facade and her helpful demeanor, Cassandra seems to have her own agenda. An agenda that puts everyone in danger and that uncovers a complex generational mystery. And so the family's new life in a seemingly perfect home quickly becomes a battle for survival in a house they do not control. And the only hope they have is the one of finding the answers to the questions that will seal their fate. Who actually built Cassandra? What is her goal? Why was she abandoned for 50 years? And most of all, who is the mysterious woman she was modeled after? The show is a brilliant blend of sci-fi horror with a retro aesthetic and psychological thriller with insane twists and turns. Like, we've seen a lot of AI is evil movies and shows in recent years, and they often have the biggest boomer energy and don't have anything intelligent to say, but Cassandra is one of those rare exceptions. It's a series that has a lot of things to say and that uses its premise to craft a very compelling mystery that takes place throughout two timelines: one of them taking place in the present day and the other taking place back in the '70s. The two storylines overlap in very smart ways and intensify the mystery. All of that to make a very specific point that transcends the very idea of the series. And that's the genius of the show. It frames itself as a horror story about AI being too powerful. Uh, but that's not actually what it is about. And when you do find out what it is about, what the real theme of the show is, the entirety of the story becomes something even more sinister than you initially thought. The real themes have nothing to do with technology or AI, and the way it reframes everything you watch makes it that much more terrifying. Cassandra was so good. I am a sucker for sinister mysteries, and that was one of the most intriguing binges I've had this year.

Number seven, Pluribus. Look, if you see the name Vince Gilligan attached to a series, you know you're about to get some good TV. After the generational run he had with Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul, homie is back in 2025 with a new series, and he did not disappoint. Almost 20 years since Breaking Bad, Bros' streak is still going. Pluribus is a very bizarre mystery series about a very strange apocalypse that turns the entirety of humanity into a single hive mind that is perpetually happy. We follow the story of Carol, a successful author who for an unknown reason did not become part of the hive mind, making her the only remaining autonomous human on the entire planet. She witnessed the fall of humanity in a single night and she is now forced to live in a world where every human on the planet is watching her and stuck in a perpetual state of unmovable joy. I purposefully went into this show with zero knowledge of what it was about. I know the marketing campaign kept it vague intentionally, but even then I avoided the trailers. I didn't read anything about it. I just waited for it to come out and I pressed play on the thing and damn, going into this thing completely blind is probably the best decision I've made this year. Pluribus is absolutely amazing. It's very bizarre and unusual, but it's funny and it's a very slow burn where the characters are all about the things they don't say out loud. It's all about the subtext, things you can understand through their actions. And admittedly, it has a protagonist that is very difficult to like. Just from looking online, boy, people really do not like Carol. Um, and that's kind of the point. That's sort of why this spin on the apocalypse is fun because we're given a protagonist that is designed to be unlikable. Carol is an angry [ __ ] who is rude to everyone all the time for no reason. Her own wife described her as someone who "loves to feel bad." She is a miserable, bitter, and unhappy woman who is now forced to live in a world where everyone is 100% positive, connected, and joyful at all times. Watching Carol trying to navigate this situation and often getting in her own way and making things even more complicated than they already are because she can't help but be an [ __ ] all the time is honestly weirdly compelling. It's such a particular narrative device to pull off and the show does it perfectly. She's a character who makes it very hard for the audience to root for her. She's made that way on purpose, but she's also the only one who could save the world. So, you're kind of stuck with her. The only official description that was available for the show prior to its release was a single phrase that simply said, "The most miserable person on Earth must save the world from happiness." And I think that is indeed the perfect way to describe Pluribus. The complexities of that show are so subtle and the entire thing is carried brilliantly by Rhea Seehorn who plays Carol and brings an unbelievable amount of layers to that character with a performance that feels super real. The story is gripping. The slow unraveling of the mystery behind the apocalypse is so well-crafted and the way the show has to make you laugh and then genuinely shock you from one second to the next is just amazing. And all of it doubles with an overall concept that is just a gigantic elaborate metaphor for AI and its integration into society. Some people have complained that they find the show too slow and that the middle chunk of the season is boring, but I don't know. For me, it kind of worked if you see this more as a character study of this miserable woman. It's tragic, but also hilarious. The show's sense of humor in general is very out there, but so entertaining. There's one particular bit of dialogue that is repeated several times in almost every episode. And the point of it is that having to listen to it in full every single time is [ __ ] annoying. But the show has a way to do it that makes it so funny every time that you start reciting the line along with the show. "Hello, Carol." "This is a recording." It's the most simultaneously irritating and amusing running gag ever. I just love that the show does weird [ __ ] like that. Long story short, Pluribus was everything I wanted it to be and so much more. Vince Gilligan, you've done it again, you beautiful son of a [ __ ] If you haven't seen Pluribus, get on it. "Hi, Carol. Thank you for calling." "Yep."

Number six, Common Side Effects. Well, correct me if I'm wrong, but I think this is the first time Adult Swim has made its way into the top 10. And boy, is it well-deserved. I've talked extensively about how admiring I've been of the resurgence of Western animation in the last couple of years. We've been popping off and this show is yet another example of that resurgence being satisfying as hell. Common Side Effects is a series about a mycology expert named Marshall who discovers the existence of an extremely rare mushroom that has the particular ability to cure literally any disease in existence instantly. It can heal any injury and it can fix any sort of illness. With that arguably being the biggest medical discovery of all time, Marshall quickly becomes the target of a sinister conspiracy involving world governments and powerful pharmaceutical companies who will stop at nothing to suppress all knowledge of this miracle medicine because they benefit too much from keeping people in poor health. Meaning they cannot tolerate the existence of a universal cure. With agents after him everywhere, Marshall turns to Francis, an old friend from high school who could help him hide. But the thing is, he doesn't know that Francis is currently working for the biggest pharmaceutical empire in the world. The series was created by Joseph Bennett, the creator of Scavengers Reign, absolute masterpiece, released, I believe, in 2023, and also by one of the producers of The Office. And it is just insanely good. Common Side Effects is an extremely compelling conspiracy thriller about corporate greed with such an intense sense of dread and mystery. There are moments in this show that are so tense and that will get you so paranoid because Marshall has all sorts of organizations after him. From federal agencies to covert crime syndicates to mercenaries, they are watching him through every device imaginable. And whenever he is in public, he doesn't know if the people surrounding him are regular people or if they're agents surveilling him or mercenaries trying to kill him. It's such a claustrophobic series with crazy twists and turns and it gets dark. The story unravels in a way that shocks you and you always want to know what's going to happen next. Like the show starts off pretty comedic in tone and slowly turns into something unsettling and creepy. I had absolutely no idea what I was getting into when I started watching this. And Jesus Christ, I was not ready. Common Side Effects is one of the most thrilling rides we got this year and I cannot wait for Season 2.

Number five, Severance Season 2. The third Apple TV Plus series on this list, but okay. Yeah, this one is kind of a given. So, for the little backstory, in the 2022 top 10 list, which was the first one I ever made on the channel, the first season of Severance took the top spot. It was number one, and if you ask me, it wasn't even close. I genuinely believe that Season 1 of Severance is in the conversation for the top 10 greatest single seasons of television ever made. It is perfect TV from start to finish. It reigned supreme in 2022. The moment it came out, it was over for all the other series. Then we had to wait an agonizing 3 years to finally get Season 2, which came out all the way back in January. And if there is one thing I can say, it is that this second season was definitely worth the wait. Severance Season 2 is just peak television. It is a show that is just as good at throwing jaw-dropping mysteries and twists at your face as it is when it comes to making you feast on absolute spectacle. And this season goes all out. It is so balls to the wall with insanely memorable performances and very unique creative choices. And while nobody really watched Severance in 2022, Season 2 made the series an international hit that had the entirety of the internet in a chokehold every single week all the way to one of the most insane, jaw-dropping season finales of all time. A finale that literally had me screaming at my screen and jumping up and down the couch like a crazy person. This thing was epic and it made an incredible season of television come to a perfect close with a spectacular cliffhanger. I was watching this [ __ ] like this, bro. I was locked in. But you've probably noticed that uh season 2 is not number one on the list. Uh, that's because I found season 2 to have its flaws. I admittedly did not love it as much as Season 1 and had a few issues with aspects of it. That's why it's not number one. Again, I made a whole video about it on the channel if you want more detailed thoughts about that. But while I don't think Season 2 is quite as good as Season 1, it still effortlessly makes its way into the top 10 this year because even if it is slightly weaker, it is just that good. Severance is a generational win. We are not going to have a second series like this. It is so unique and weird and different and crazy. The fact that it blew up the way it did and solidified itself as a modern pop culture monument is entirely deserved. Everybody involved in this show popped the [ __ ] off. The cast is on fire. The directors, the DPs, the composer, the writers, the lighting department, the set design department. Everybody in this show is flexing their abilities on us and easily putting most of current television to shame. It's wild. Apparently, we're going to have to wait for 2027 to get Season 3. That's kind of annoying, but man, words cannot describe how excited I am to get more Severance.

Number four, The Pit. Listen, as someone who has never been into medical dramas and has been pretty vocal about not liking them all that much, you know that me putting one this high up in the top 10 means this [ __ ] is the real deal. And I mean that almost literally. It's, it kind of doesn't get any realer than this as far as TV goes. The Pit, for those who don't know, is an intense series on HBO Max that follows a group of healthcare professionals in a Pittsburgh hospital as they try to navigate emergencies, personal crises, workplace politics, and the emotional toll of treating critically ill patients. It's a very high-pressure story about the weight that comes with the job, but in a way that has never been matched and has never been this immersive. And that's because of the show's format. See, from the very first episode, The Pit makes a radical choice and commits to it without flinching. And that is the choice of having the entire series unfold in real time. The entire season takes place in a single day. 15 episodes, 15 hours, one uninterrupted hospital shift. No narrative escape, no temporal shortcuts. On the contrary, the plot uses time as a weight it forces you to carry as an audience. You feel it accumulating in the bodies of the characters, in their voices, in the way small decisions start to cost more the later they're made. And it's not a gimmick either. It's basically The Pit's philosophy. The show is essentially looking at you and saying, "Hey, if you want to understand what this job does to people, you have to stay inside it long enough for the fatigue to set in." And it works. By the end of the season, there's so much tension, the stakes are so high, the stress is through the roof, the intensity is almost unbearable because you barely ever get a second to breathe. It's [ __ ] relentless. And you feel how tired these characters are, the effects all of that constant, never-ending pressure has on them. And then you're reminded of the bleak reality: that was just one day. One shift. This is every day for them. This entire season was only one day in their week. And the part that's crazy to me is that I know a number of people who are doctors or are married to doctors or whose parents are doctors. And all of them have been unanimous about the show being one of the most realistic and accurate depictions of what it's like to work in the ER. And I was told that before I watched the show. So when I felt my heart racing while watching it, it's all I could think about. Even though while the show doesn't shy away from the suffering and pressure, it also refuses to glamorize it. Everything about it feels grounded and real and it makes all the difference in the world. It also goes without saying, but the show is carried by incredible characters who themselves are carried by an incredible cast, and the writing is so incredible and authentic that it makes you feel like you're watching a documentary about real doctors rather than a fictional series. The Pit was an absolutely insane ride, and I cannot wait for Season 2 to come out in a couple months. It's a great series. It's an important series. I implore you to go watch it if you haven't.

Number three, Adolescence. Man, every year without fault, there's a series from the UK that comes out of nowhere and just captivates the [ __ ] out of people. But like to the point where like for a portion of the year, it seems like it's the only show people talk about on the internet. You had Bodies in 2023. Last year in 2024, it was Baby Reindeer. And this year we got Adolescence. So if you're one of the six people who have somehow managed to not hear about this show earlier this year, Adolescence is a 4-episode miniseries about a family from Doncaster that sees their life completely shattered when the youngest child, a 13-year-old boy named Jamie, is suddenly arrested for murdering his classmate, a young girl named Katie. The series follows the investigation from the point of views of different characters: the detectives on the case, Jamie's parents, Jamie's psychotherapist, and Jamie himself. And of course, the reason why the show made so much noise when it came out: all four of the episodes are wonders. One long take, no hidden cuts, all in real time, just like The Pit right before this. If an episode is 60 minutes long, then you are following exactly 60 minutes in the lives of the characters. And they push that concept to the fullest extent of its capabilities. There are episodes that include significant location changes, flying shots, traveling from a house to like a store with no control over the traffic, and the camera never cuts. It's insane. And the thing is, yes, every episode being a long take with no cut is a technical and logistical marvel that to this day impresses me to no end. The fact that they got the first episode of the show on the second take is [ __ ] crazy. But that's not why this show is so great. I mean, it's definitely part of it, don't get me wrong. But Adolescence is great because the writing is just brilliant. The unraveling of this murder case and the way the show goes about dropping information through impeccably written conversations between characters is just so wild. Episode 3 had me glued to my seat like I rarely have been. The dialogue between Jamie and the therapist is written so well. There isn't a single line that isn't important. And because the camera never cuts and you're watching the full hour of them talking in real time and you see the escalation, the tension starting to rise, the sudden shifts in behaviors. Episode 3 is a masterpiece of character writing on so many levels. It's an episode of television I will be thinking about for years to come. And man, the performances. Holy hell. I can't even start shouting people out because I would have to go through the whole cast, but I am going to say Owen Cooper in the role of Jamie is just so impressive, it's not even funny. He was like 14 when he played this character. Man, I was mesmerized by this kid's work. The amount of layers he brings to Jamie, especially when the show focuses on his psyche. I give the kid all of the awards. Look, it was kind of evident that Adolescence was going to be in the top 10. I think everybody saw that coming. It's just one of those shows, but you really got to give the credit where it's due. This show was moving different, literally.

Number two, Breu. Okay, there's so much lore to this. Let me explain. Breu is a French series that came out in 2011 that tells the story of a man in his late 20s whose life is banal and unfulfilling. He's kind of a lovable loser and the series uses each episode to show him navigating everyday life stuff that everyone can relate to. From having a first date, going to a job interview, procrastination, awkward family dinners, learning to play an instrument, being late, feeling stuck in people-pleasing, sleeping with his ex, moving, like pretty much any everyday situation you can think of, there's an episode about this guy going through it. It's kind of a window where you briefly get to peek into the life of the most normal guy ever. Each episode of the show is only about 2 minutes long. It's narrated by the main character who explains the situations he finds himself in with a quick-witted, very dry humor that gives the show an insane rhythm that is just incredibly entertaining. But while it's hilarious and witty, the show is also very deep and emotional at times because it touches on a lot of very common human experiences. The main character is kind of your everyday man. There's things about him you love, others you hate, and you watch him as he attempts to navigate life, while sometimes being unable to get out of his own way as he self-sabotages his way through jobs and relationships. Anyway, Breu aired for 11 months from August 2011 to July 2012 with a total of 82 episodes of 2 minutes each. And in a few words, the series was nothing short of a cultural Goliath in France. It was huge. And I mean huge. It became a phenomenon, a staple of internet culture in France with an absurd amount of references that marked the era. People quoted this series like crazy with its legendary sarcastic punchlines. There were hundreds of skits online from big and small creators recreating episodes of the show with their own situations by emulating the unique narration and the signature editing style that makes the show so iconic. In other words, Breu was big. It is to this day one of the most beloved series in France. Now, 14 years later, on January 31st, 2025, Disney Plus made a surprise announcement that Breu would be coming back with a new season simply titled Breu Deux. And they did it in one of the most badass ways imaginable. Because the announcement wasn't just that the show was coming back. It was that the show had already been shot, was completed, and would be coming out in just 2 weeks on Valentine's Day. And they dropped all of that info along with a surprise trailer. Absolute boss [ __ ]. I don't know if you realize the 4D chess move this was. Somehow, by some grace of God, they managed to make the second season to one of the most beloved series in the history of France in complete secret. It was made by the exact same people who had made the first season back in 2011, starring the exact same cast who are all super famous now, with some even more famous people joining the cast. But somehow they managed to keep the secret until the trailer came out. And I have to say that is an incredibly refreshing experience to have in 2025 in a time where social media makes us aware of every production going on at all times basically from the moment they're put in development. Like we know about movies and shows coming out like 3, 4, 5 years ahead of time. So having something be a genuine surprise like this that nobody saw coming and that nobody could have expected, it's just incredibly refreshing. Everybody kept the secret and that element of surprise was felt by audiences. People were buzzing in a way that I hadn't experienced in a very long time. But coming back to a legendary series after 14 years with a new season is very risky. I mean, you're taking a huge risk to ruin something iconic if it doesn't work. And while people were excited, they were also nervous about it turning out to be a lazy cash grab that had no point. And boy oh boy, we could not have been more wrong. Breu is a masterpiece. It is so unbelievably good. It effortlessly blows the first season out the water, which is crazy, and it delivers one of the best TV stories of the decade so far. Season 2 takes place about 10 years after the events of Season 1. In the first season, you follow this character whose name we never learn as he tries to navigate life in his late 20s. In Season 2, we are now following him as he's about to turn 40 and realizes he hasn't accomplished anything with his life and has remained stuck in all of the toxic cycles that poison his existence when he was younger. The story begins when his girlfriend, with whom he has an intense romance, very suddenly breaks up with him and leaves him a broken shell of a man with nowhere to go. And the season has him reflecting on his own life as he tries to pick himself back up, not knowing that another massive tragedy is about to shatter his life even more. First thing that's interesting, the format of Season 2 is different from Season 1. Season 1 was composed of 82 episodes of 2 minutes, which sounds like a lot, but really you can watch the entire thing in about three hours. Season 2, however, is only six episodes of 40 minutes, telling the story in a different way, all while keeping its identity largely intact by reinventing the quick-witted narrative style of the previous season. And again, while the show is a comedy and it is hilarious, it also is one of the most emotional things I've watched in a really long time. I've never been one to cry in front of films and TV shows, but this season made me tear up more than once. It is such a deeply honest and human look at generational trauma and toxic cycles, complex relationships with family, toxic masculinity, and the importance of introspection. This is just six episodes of a show about a regular ass guy who is just trying to be a better person. You watch him as he tries to take a deeper look at his past relationships, his fractured bond with his brother, his failure to accomplish anything professionally, and the feeling of emptiness he feels towards himself as a result of seeing friends that were once unaccomplished like him, having since evolved into the best versions of themselves, where he feels like he's been stuck in the same place for 10 years. But it also looks at the darker and sadder realities of life at that age. From the reality of your parents becoming very old, your friends moving on with their lives without you because you're not growing at the same pace as them, all the way to the regrets of not having said things to people when you had a chance to. And it does so with such creative storytelling, jumping into metaphorical sequences to convey emotion, states of minds, or to showcase experiences we have all been through in fantastical ways, often leading to insane revelations about the 10-year gap between the two seasons. Episode 2 has a gut punch of a twist that had everybody talking and that is so deeply heartbreaking and so well-executed that almost a year later I am still thinking about it like once a week at least. There are many moments of this season I am still thinking about lines of dialogue that are still in my head every day. Watching Breu Deux felt like being given a series of powerful life lessons. The biggest of which being it is never too late to be a better person. This show made me laugh. This show made me cry. It made me look at my own life. It is the most beautiful, heartwarming, and heartbreaking show to come out this year without the shadow of a doubt. I am so thankful that this show exists. So thankful that the creators brought it back only because they had things they really needed to say. They gave us a masterpiece of heartfelt storytelling and I will cherish it until the day I die.

All right, before getting to number one, it is time for the good old honorable mentions. The shows that almost made the list but didn't quite get there. Let's get through them rapid fire.

North of North is an insanely charming sitcom about an Inuk woman in a small and nosy Arctic town who tries to reinvent herself and redefine her life after walking away from her marriage with the town's most popular man. I didn't really know what to expect from it. A friend told me to watch it and it's just an excellent comedy about a very underrepresented community. This is going to be a comfort show for a lot of people.

Dexter: Resurrection miraculously turned out to be much better than it ever had any right to be. I don't think I loved it as much as most people did, but after the disaster that was the ending of the original show and the failed sequel series, this is a very solid return to form made to retcon a lot of [ __ ].

The Eternod is a post-apocalyptic sci-fi series from Argentina about the survivors of a mysterious snowstorm that killed most of the world's population. Absolutely thrilling ride. This [ __ ] was crazy.

Don Don Season 2 did not make the list and I am very upset about that. This season was just as bonkers and fun as the first season and it was everything I wanted it to be. The level of pure entertainment this show provides still impresses me to this day. I can't wait for Season 3.

Eavesdropping is not really a TV show because it was made for Instagram by a group of young independent filmmakers and it's honestly one of the most charming, cozy, and heartwarming shows I've watched this year. Had it been an actual TV show, it would have made the top 10. Essentially, it's the story of two high school classmates, Cameron and Beatrice, who reconnect as adults by coincidence and form a very complex bond that oscillates between platonic and maybe not so platonic. I got into Eavesdropping last year when it had just started by complete accident and it's been the highlight of my social media experience. It's witty and so well-written. It's fun and it's entirely made by people who are just really passionate about it and they do it on their spare time because they all have day jobs, but they deserve so much recognition for this.

And then we have Dep Q, a brilliant thriller about a rowdy detective in Edinburgh whose life is completely consumed by a cold case he is assigned to and becomes obsessed with. This one was so close to making the top 10. I'm honestly a little mad it didn't.

But yeah, that is it for the honorable mentions. Absolutely check out all of these shows. And with that out of the way, let's get to it. Let's get to number one: Andor Season 2.

You have no idea how long I've been waiting to talk about this. Last year in the top 10 worst list, I talked about The Acolyte and went on an extended rant about my relationship with Star Wars and how I basically fell out of love with it and no longer consider myself a fan of the franchise after having been one since before my memories even started to be saved in my hard drive. As a conclusion to my rant, I said I had one [ __ ] left to give to Star Wars, and that [ __ ] was reserved for Andor Season 2, which was still a few months away at the time I made this video. And guys, a whole year later, I can say with all the confidence in the world, I have never been more proud to have given a [ __ ]. Not only is Andor the single best Star Wars story we've gotten since the original trilogy, and if I'm being completely honest, probably ever, it is also very simply one of the greatest sci-fi series of all time. And I will stand by that statement every day of the week. It is a masterpiece. And I'll admit that I was pessimistic and I didn't think Season 2 would ever be able to reach the heights of Season 1. And I was so wrong. Season 2 is so far beyond Season 1 and it is the final season, so it also finishes the story while being at its apex in terms of quality. They [ __ ] pulled it off. They did it. Tony Gilroy delivered the most intelligent, the most grounded, the most powerful, and the most impactful story Star Wars has ever given us. Andor is an A-grade representation of what Star Wars should have evolved into in the modern age and what it has miserably failed to be in the 10 years since The Force Awakens came out. This is a Star Wars project that actually has something to say. It's not interested in fan service. There's no cameos, no excessive callbacks, no lightsabers. No, no, no. This isn't a Star Wars series. This is a political thriller in the Star Wars universe and that is the best thing it could have been because this story is unfortunately very topical. It's a show about the slow rise of fascism, how it creeps in quietly, how revolutions aren't born from destiny and grand prophecies, but from pressure, despair, compromise, fear, suffering, and a lot of very bad choices. And it just goes for it. It allows itself to demonstrate that in ways I never thought Star Wars would ever have the balls to. Season 2 in particular feels surgical. Every single moment of this show is so intentional, which is something that has become so foreign to Star Wars. Conversations are layered. Every line of dialogue matters. Every character is so intricately complex and every action they take influences the story because they all have very complex motivations too. The utilization of bureaucracy as a prison for characters and their plans is [ __ ] insane. But it works. It works because the show does everything with the utmost amount of intention. People lie without lying. Threats are polite. Ideology is implied. It's never like announced to you. Characters speak like people who have thought about what they're saying and who understand the danger of saying it wrong. This is prestige television writing dropped into a franchise that spent years confusing nostalgia with storytelling. And it works because it doesn't beg you to clap. It connects the personal to the political without taking dumbass shortcuts. It shows how rebellion becomes organized. How it becomes compromised, fractured, and dangerous. It refuses to romanticize resistance while still making it very necessary. And this is the first Star Wars story that truly commits to showing you the horrors people go through at the hand of the Empire. There's an entire episode of this season where you watch as Cassian witnesses the Empire committing a genocide and he has to navigate the chaos and survive while understanding the scope of what is happening with the Empire and what it will lead to if they aren't stopped. Because he knows this massacre is only the beginning. But this show also insists on giving you an in on the inner workings of the Empire in ways we had never really seen before. It shows you that even people who work for the Empire are kind of prisoners of its system, too. They're not necessarily free either. And you see how a lot of their actions are motivated by, yes, a desire for more power, but also by fear of what would happen to them if they ever fail. Everyone in the Empire is afraid of the person above them and that pressure is so high that morality becomes frozen. The return of Ben Mendelsohn as Director Krennic has some of the scariest scenes in Star Wars. He is such a threatening [ __ ]. I am still in shock at his scenes. "Supervisor Yung spent 3 hours last night logged into your account. Now, shall we take a guess at what he might have told?" And so, the show delves into very real political dynamics that are not exclusive to science fiction because they reflect the world we live in. Surveillance states, labor exploitation, radicalization, sexual assault, misogyny, oppression, classism, oligarchy. All of it is explored in a universe that is familiar, but in a story that truly wants to say something rather than just showing you things you've already seen again and again. Andor proves how embarrassing the last decade of the franchise has been. It wipes out almost 40 years of storytelling on its own, putting dozens of movies and shows in the same universe to shame. Standing on its own as an actually important series, a must-watch project, not because of the fact that the name Star Wars is attached to it, but because of the story it's trying to tell. It proves that you can respect canon without being enslaved by fan service and lazy storytelling. It's a show that took a rather forgettable secondary character from Rogue One and gave him a story that effectively makes him one of the best characters in the entire franchise. Cassian Andor is easily one of the most compelling protagonists we've ever had in this universe. Diego Luna gives everything he has to this role and it shows. Mon Mothma, a throwaway character from the original trilogy, is turned here into one of the most compelling and emotionally complex characters in all of Star Wars, who has to make impossible decisions because of how deep she went as a spy into the high society of Coruscant. Stellan Skarsgård plays one of the most intriguing characters in Star Wars history. I could go all day. Andor just gets there. It's a masterpiece. And Season 2 didn't just stick the landing, it claimed the entire [ __ ] franchise for itself. Thank you, Andor. You will truly never be forgotten. Even if you are not a Star Wars fan, for the love of God, watch this show.

And there you go, the 10 best TV shows of the year. Again, pretty solid year in TV. Please feel free to let me know in the comments down below what shows were your favorites. I watch a lot of shows every year, but sometimes I miss some real gems. So, let me know if there's anything I missed. And, you know, now that the best shows of the year are out of the way, it is time to talk about the worst shows of the year. But that's for the next video. Okay, bye.

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