![]() ![]() Each choice - in front of and behind the camera - blends together to make an intricate portrait of flawed people dooming a kingdom to a war it didn’t deserve. ![]() Westeros may be full of bad eggs, but in the hands of this show it’s blessedly hard to fully root against almost anyone. At its most basic form, House of the Dragon is great TV, grounding every twist of the knife in nuanced, thoughtful characters. These are not nothing!įortunately these all matter less than the best part of the show: It’s just plain good. There’s any number of metrics by which you can measure House of the Dragon’s success: In the fantasy show showdown with The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power it reigned supreme as a more thoughtfully plotted prequel it pulled in a record number of viewers for HBO it got people excited about blonde people in Game of Thrones again, in 2022. Our last update added House of the Dragon and Derry Girls. ![]() With any show that ends in 2022 eligible for consideration, scroll on and see what your next TV watershed moment is. ![]() We’re organizing this list with the most recent additions at the top, with older things floating down as we move through the year. And if you like lists, we’ve got more lists - specifically lists of the best movies, games, anime, and books of the year so far. Take the “so far” as both a promise and a challenge this is a list we’ll be updating several times throughout the rest of 2022 as new shows drop, older shows settle in our minds, and we (like everyone else) continue to catch up with unsung gems of the year. As such, we’ve got a list of the best of the year so far. You wouldn’t be alone if you felt like riding the deluge was a Herculean feat at this rate no one could be expected to fully keep up with even the year’s top-billed releases, let alone the whole horizon of television at the moment. Not only are channels now siloed across different streaming platforms, each with their own catalog and subscription fees, but there’s more TV than ever before. If channel surfing was once a casual pastime, then it has become an Olympic undertaking. ![]()
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