Ranking Every TV Show of 2020: #s 109-85
We’re ranking every TV show we watched in 2020. If you missed the first two tiers, you can check them out here.
Tier 10: Tolerable, but forgettable
109. Monsterland (Hulu, Season 1). The idea behind Monsterland—a horror anthology whose disparate episodes are all designed to tap into similar feelings of resentment, isolation, and dread—is solid enough. It’s the execution that’s lacking. Most anthologies imitate a qualitative bell curve: one or two stunners, one or two clunkers, and a handful of passable installments in between. But with Monsterland, it’s hard to pick a highlight. I reasonably enjoyed both the opener—with Kaitlyn Dever (who also shows up in several other episodes) as a young single mom at the end of her rope—and the closer—with Mike Colter as a bereaved father whose floundering marriage suddenly receives some extraterrestrial Viagra. But most of what’s in between is a muddle, hinting at intriguing premises without exploring them with any urgency. A show called Monsterland shouldn’t be so unmemorable. Read More