2019: MY FAVORITE TV SERIES (RANKED)

Best TV series of the year: Too Old To Die Young byNWR on Amazon Prime Video. Slow tv, lit by neon. A stultifying experience. Possibly genius. A dialogue scene stretched over [what it feels like] three, four hours. Turgid, yes. Torpid, yes. Extremely lurid. Nihilism to the max. Involuntarily comical. Mesmerising, soporific, vile. Art trash. Def midcult. The LAPD detectives chanting “fascism! fascism! fascism!” and “fake news! fake news! fake news!”. Grand Theft Auto VI feat. Hideo Kojima byNWR. MASTER.PIECE.

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War of the Worlds by Gilles Coulier and Richard Clark (Fox): Much bleaker than...