2018: MY FAVORITE TV SERIES OF THE YEAR (RANKED)

Unlike cinema, TV remains a cool medium in the digital age. In other words, I don’t find TV very interesting. Even high concept series like Cary Fukunaga’s Maniac are nothing more than the detritus of the culture industry masquerading as avantgarde experiments. Aside from unclassifiable metatexts like Donald Glover’s Atlanta or Random Act of Flyness, the contemporary tvscape is trivial and unremarkable. I found the vast majority of new seasons of established shows to be redundant, including American Vandal, which went from “subversive” to overly didactic. I listened to the full season of Gimlet Media’s...