Once again, it’s time for me, Nick Bryan, to creak my written TV critic muscles back into action for their one annual outing, after another year of only outpiping my opinions via the spoken word in this podcast (apart from the occasional capsule review in my newsletter).
This is the fourteenth time I’ve done this, and you can re-experience all the previous write-ups below:
As ever, this is entirely my opinion, I’m veering away from the consensus on a few items here. Artistic preference is ultimately subjective and anyone who tells you otherwise is lying.
This year, it was another competitive one, several list veterans didn’t make it. Even though the heaving mass of peak TV has slowed, there’s still more than enough to fill this chart and keep me guessing.
We start with an unsurprising entry for me…
This festive fortnight, Nick and Alastair cover one of the big Christmas movies of this year, the new Benoit Blanc mystery Wake Up Dead Man (15:01), plus the latest season of political comedy-drama series The Diplomat (27:00).
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This fortnight, Nick and Alastair enter the gothically dark world of Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein (16:27), and the edgelordishly dark universe of youthful Boys spin-off Gen V’s second season (28:18).
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This fortnight, Nick and Alastair venture into the deadly landscape of Predator: Badlands (15:44), then the even scarier dark underbelly of the internet in W0rldtr33 volume 3 (29:10).
This fortnight, it’s espionage and political drama on both sides of the pond with A House of Dynamite (13:36) and Slow Horses season 5 (29:40).
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This fortnight, another double-superhero podcast, with DC’s Peacemaker season 2 (20:44), plus Marvel Zombies (38:55) from, shockingly, Marvel providing token Halloween content. Some spoilers on that Marvel Zombies review.
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Nick and Alastair return to smash the system (exhaustedly) with One Battle After Another, then flee from icky extra-terrestrials in Alien: Earth.
Finally, it’s Alien: Earth (36:09), the polarising new spin-off series which finally gives the xenomorph some like-minded friends.
To celebrate a ludicrous 250 episodes, Nick and Alastair once again recommend each other some favourites – this time, it’s Netflix series Alice in Borderland and 90s superhero-cyberpunk comic Spider-Man 2099.
Lastly, Nick’s suggestion for Alastair is Spider-Man 2099 (36:15), the original late-90s series by Peter David and Rick Leonardi, introducing the iconic future version of Spidey to the world, and Nick to darker and more morally complex comics.
This fortnight, Nick and Alastair revisit some old friends, as they exhume their favourite righteous serial killer in Dexter: Resurrection and witness another tense stand-off between the superhuman superpowers of The Power Fantasy.
This fortnight, Nick and Alastair cover an animated extravaganza including Netflix sensation K-Pop Demon Hunters and new Marvel anthology Eyes of Wakanda.
Lastly, another Marvel show lands in Eyes of Wakanda (27:33), an anthology series about the espionage wing of the secretive African nation.
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