Shows watched, 2024 so far

Fallout (Season 1)

The lore-rich retro-futuristic wasteland of the Fallout games was ready for TV (Amazon Prime)

The Gentlemen (Season 1)

The style-over-substance style of Guy Ritchie works well for this crime comedy (Netflix)

Ripley (Season 1)

I'm afraid viewers aren't in the mood to watch a leisurely-paced, black-and-white serial killer thriller, but if this unlikely formula is a hit, there's a tease for Season 2. John Malkovich, who played the character Ripley about 20 years ago, makes a cameo (Netflix)

Baby Reindeer (Season 1)

A struggling comedian is harassed by a stalker, things get worse from there. As for the show, it gets better (Netflix)

The Last Airbender (Season 1)

Water. Earth. Fire. Air. Long ago, the four nations lived together in harmony, then everything changed when M. Night Shyamalan did a terrible film adaptation. This show is an improvement, but that's not saying a lot (Netflix)

The 3 Body Problem (Season 1)

This incoherent mess has more resemblance in quality to the ending of Game of Thrones than its beginning (Netflix)

Invinsible (Season 2)

Prime's two marquee shows are a satiric deconstruction of the superhero genre, and almost makes me wish they did Watchmen (Amazon Prime)

Shogun (Season 1)

This is Prestige TV at its peak. Leaving behind the white-savior angle of the 80s adaptation for a delicate game of 4D chess between waring factions. This season will be near-impossible to top, the book's material is already over (FX)

Curb Your Enthusiasm (Season 12)

Consistently funny to the very end. What else can I say? (HBO)

Severance (Season 1)

I missed this dystopian show in 2022. My 90s self would have been mind-blown watching John Turturro and Christophen Walken involved in a romance (Apple TV)

Eric (Season 1)

A puppeter searching for his missing child in an anachronistic 80s New York City looked promising, but the "unreliable narrator" psychological drama made it a drag (Netflix)