MovieManifesto

Here lies the penultimate post in the Manifesto’s 2015 TV rankings. If you missed them, here are the previous installments:

Nos. 62-51
Nos. 50-40
Nos. 39-31
Nos. 30-21 Read More

Continuing its annual exercise, the Manifesto is ranking every TV show we watched in 2015. If you missed them, here are the previous installments:

Nos. 62-51
Nos. 50-40
Nos. 39-31 Read More

The Manifesto is ranking every TV show we watched in 2015. If you missed them, here are the previous installments:

Nos. 62-51
Nos. 50-40 Read More

The Manifesto is ranking every TV show we watched in 2015. If you missed our first installment, you can find it here. Read More

God, I watch a lot of television.

This is both a boast and a confession. In the current era of #PeakTV, it requires a considerable level of dedication to keep up with the overwhelming number of scripted shows that air at all times and across a dozen different platforms. It also requires a pitiful social life, a prohibitive cable bill, and a perpetual lack of sleep. For we deviants who are committed to scouring all corners of the artistic world, watching TV is less a hobby than a calling, a solemn quest to discover the next great prestige drama or quirky comedy.

It is also a losing battle. The forthcoming series of posts will chronicle my thoughts on a healthy (OK, unhealthy) number of TV shows, but what galls me are not the series I disliked but those I haven’t seen. Unless you write about television for a living, it is virtually impossible to consume all of the available programming (at least, not without inventing the 37-hour-day). There is, quite literally, too much damn TV. Read More