The best TV of 2018: 7 great shows and how to watch them

 


"2018 was the year I gave up.

I’m not sure if this is literally true; if I sat down and calculated every hour of TV I watched in 2018, I’m sure it would compare favorably to the total number of hours I watched in 2017. It’s not like I stopped consuming television altogether.

But with every new email I received about some new show airing on some new platform, I felt a little more exhausted, and I fell a little more behind

People are still watching television, and there are still series that viewers clearly care about. But the sheer glut of programming has made just about everything a little bit worse. There are way more good shows than ever before, but almost all of them are just good enough. Their aim is less to create great television than it is to just keep you consuming “content,” whatever that means. They are shows intended not to demand your undivided attention, but to offer another distraction while you look at your phone.

On the whole, this is fine. American television has always, mostly, been forgettable by design. "

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The best TV of 2018: 7 great shows and how to watch them - Vox