May 23, 2025
jmunney
Cinema, Entertainment To-Do List, Music, Sports, Television
Big Mouth, French Open, Iz It a Crime?, Keb' Mo', Lilo & Stitch, Lilo & Stitch 2025, MAD!, Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning, Pee-Wee as Himself, Rick and Morty, Room on the Porch, Snoop Dogg, Sparks, Taj Mahal, U.S. Women's Open
Pee-Wee being Pee-Wee (CREDIT: HBO/Screenshot)
Every week, I list all the upcoming (or recently released) movies, TV shows, albums, podcasts, etc. that I believe are worth checking out.
Movies
–Lilo & Stitch (Theaters)
–Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning (Theaters)
TV
–Big Mouth Season 8 (May 23 on Netflix) – Final Season Alert! (I’m still I-don’t-know-how-many seasons behind.)
–Pee-Wee as Himself (Premieres May 23 on HBO) – Two-part docuseries about a funny guy.
–Rick and Morty Season 8 Premiere (May 25 on Adult Swim)
Music
-Snoop Dogg, Iz It a Crime? – This came out last week.
-Sparks, MAD!
-Taj Mahal and Keb’ Mo’, Room on the Porch
Sports
-French Open (May 25-June 8 on TNT, truTV, and Max)
-U.S. Women’s Open (May 29-June 1 on USA, NBC, and Peacock)
October 13, 2023
jmunney
Cinema, Entertainment To-Do List, Music, Television
Anatomy of a Fall, Celebrity Squares, Formentera II, Goosebumps, John Carpenter's Suburban Screams, Metric, Rick and Morty, Saturday Night Live, SNL, Something to Give Each Other, Troye Sivan
Poop, poop, hurray! (CREDIT: Adult Swim/Screenshot)
Every week, I list all the upcoming (or recently released) movies, TV shows, albums, podcasts, etc. that I believe are worth checking out.
Movies
–Anatomy of a Fall (Theaters)
TV
–Goosebumps Series Premiere (October 13 on Disney+ and Hulu) – I used to read the books back in the day, and I’ve checked out some of the other adaptations. Maybe this one will be good, too.
–John Carpenter’s Suburban Screams Series Premiere (October 13 on Peacock) – An unscripted show from a master of horror.
–Saturday Night Live Season 49 Premiere (October 14 on NBC) – Hosted by Taco Bell Spokesman with Musical Guest Dunkin’ Spokeswoman.
–Rick and Morty Season 7 Premiere (October 15 on Adult Swim) – The premiere episode is titled “How Poopy Got His Poop Back.”
–Celebrity Squares Series Premiere (October 17 on VH1) – A Black spin on tic-tac-toe.
Music
-Metric, Formentera II
-Troye Sivan, Something to Give Each Other
January 20, 2023
jmunney
Best of 2022, Best of TV 2022, Television
Abbott Elementary, American Dad!, Atlanta, Beavis and Butt-Head, Best of 2022, Better Call Saul, Bob's Burgers, Ghosts, MST3K, Mystery Science Theater 3000, Norm MacDonald: Nothing Special, Pickled, Rick and Morty, The Orville, The Simpsons, TV, Ziwe
I’m a Chocoholic (CREDIT: FX/Screenshot)
When so many modern TV shows feel like amorphous blobs, I cherish those programs that know how to craft well-oiled episodes more than ever. Here’s a mighty fine selection that I might just want to keep watching over and over.
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January 18, 2023
jmunney
Best of 2022, Best of TV 2022, Television
Abbott Elementary, American Dad!, Atlanta, Beavis and Butt-Head, Best of 2022, Better Call Saul, Bob's Burgers, Chucky, Dicktown, Doctor Who, Girls5eva, High School, Jeopardy!, Mr. Mayor, Ms. Marvel, Mystery Science Theater 3000, Never Have I Ever, Not Top 10, Rick and Morty, RuPaul's Drag Race, Severance, Sherman's Showcase, Single Drunk Female, South Park, SportsCenter, The Orville, The Rehearsal, The Sex Lives of College Girls, TV, Undone, Whose Line is it Anyway?, Young Sheldon, Ziwe
CREDIT (Clockwise from Top Left): AMC/Screenshot; ABC/Screenshot; Paramount+/Screenshot; Hulu/Screenshot)
To demonstrate how great TV can be found pretty much everywhere these days, I’ve decided to pick the best show on each network and streaming service on which I regularly watched at least one show that aired in 2022. However you’re getting your fill of TV nowadays, you’re bound to find something enjoyable. If you and your remote ever find yourself hopelessly adrift, I can vouch that the following are all great places to find your way back to safety.
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September 2, 2022
jmunney
Cinema, Entertainment To-Do List, Music, Television
Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul., Megadeth, Rick and Morty, Taylor Hawkins, Taylor Hawkins Tribute Concert, The Good Fight, The Sick the Dying... and the Dead!, The Simpsons, The Simpsons: Welcome to the Club, Wedding Season
If it’s season, I’m sneezin’ (CREDIT: Hulu/Screenshot)
Every week, I list all the upcoming (or recently released) movies, TV shows, albums, podcasts, etc. that I believe are worth checking out.
Movies
–Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul. (Theaters and Peacock)
TV
–Rick and Morty Season 6 Premiere (September 4 on Adult Swim)
–The Good Fight Season 6 Premiere (September 8 on Paramount+) – Final Season Alert!
–The Simpsons: Welcome to the Club (September 8 on Disney+)
–Wedding Season Season 1 (September 8 on Hulu) – Rosa Salazar’s in this.
Music
-Megadeth, The Sick, the Dying… and the Dead!
Music on TV
-Taylor Hawkins Tribute Concert (September 3 on Paramount+ and CBS)
January 27, 2022
jmunney
Best of 2021, Best of TV 2021, Television
American Dad!, Best of 2021, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Evil, How to with John Wilson, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Nickelodeon football, Only Murders in the Building, PEN15, Pose, Resident Alien, Rick and Morty, RIverdale, Saturday Morning All Star Hits!, Search Party, Solar Opposites, Succession, The Good Fight, The Other Two, The Sex Lives of College Girls, WandaVision, What We Do in the Shadows
CREDIT: HBO
I probably watched somewhere between 1000 and 2000 episodes of TV in the past year. I don’t keep track of this information too specifically, so it’s hard to say for sure, but going by an estimate of at least 3 episodes per day, it must be somewhere within that range (if not higher). Anyway, these are the episodes out of that bunch that made enough of an impression on me to make me go, “Yeah, they nailed it.”
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January 26, 2022
jmunney
Best of 2021, Best of TV 2021, Television
A Black Lady Sketch Show, A.P. Bio, American Crime Story, American Dad!, American Housewife, Animaniacs, Atypical, Best of 2021, Big Mouth, Big Shot, Bob's Burgers, Chad, Chucky, College Bowl, Conan, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Dickinson, Earth to Ned, Evil, Fantasy Island, Full Frontal with Samantha Bee, Ghosts, History of Swear Words, Holey Moley, Home Economics, How to with John Wilson, I Think You Should Leave With Tim Robinson, Impeachment: American Crime Story, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Jeopardy!, Joe Pera Talks with You, Last Week Tonight, MacGruber, March Madness, Miracle Workers, Never Have I Ever, Only Murders in the Building, PEN15, Physical, Pose, reservation dogs, Resident Alien, Rick and Morty, RIverdale, Rugrats, RuPaul's Drag Race, Saturday Morning All Star Hits!, Saved by the Bell, Search Party, Sex Education, Solar Opposites, Succession, Superman & Lois, The Baby-Sitters Club, The Beatles: Get Back, The Chase, The Conners, The Good Fight, The Handmaid's Tale, The Kids Tonight Show, The Masked Singer, The Mighty Ducks: Game Changers, The Other Two, The Problem with Jon Stewart, The Sex Lives of College Girls, The Shrink Next Door, The Wonder Years, To Tell the Truth, Tuca & Bertie, Ultra City Smiths, WandaVision, Wellington Paranormal, What We Do in the Shadows, Whose Line is it Anyway?, Y: The Last Man, Young Sheldon, Ziwe, Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist
CREDIT (Clockwise from Top Left): Screenshot, Netflix, Screenshot, Screenshot
For the Year of Our Screens 2021, my list includes all the shows that I would recommend to my fellow viewers as “worth watching.” So that’s 77 shows! There’s a lot of TV nowadays, and a lot of it’s also pretty good.
I utilized a self-imposed rule in which I had to watch at least 50% of a show’s 2021 output for it to be eligible. However, there were some noteworthy shows that I watched less than 50% of, so I’ve spotlighted those in an honorable mention section:
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June 18, 2021
jmunney
Cinema, Entertainment To-Do List, Music, Television
Annie Murphy, Back of My Mind, Card Sharks, College Bowl, Conan, Evil, H.E.R., Helen Mirren, Kevin Can F*** Himself, Luca, Peyton Manning, Physical, Rick and Morty, Rita Moreno Just a Girl Who Decided to Go for It, Rose Byrne, RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars, The Good Fight, The Sparks Brothers, When Nature Calls with Helen Mirren
Kevin Can F*** Himself (CREDIT: Jojo Whilden/AMC)
Every week, I list all the upcoming (or recently released) movies, TV shows, albums, podcasts, etc. that I believe are worth checking out.
Movies
–Luca (June 18 on Disney+)
–Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go for It (Theaters)
–The Sparks Brothers (Theaters)
TV
–Physical Series Premiere (June 18 on Apple TV+) – Rose Byrne gets into 80s aerobics.
–Evil Season 2 Premiere (June 20 on Paramount+)
–Kevin Can F*** Himself Series Premiere (June 23 on AMC) – Annie Murphy hates sitcom clichés.
–Rick and Morty Season 5 Premiere (June 20 on Adult Swim)
–College Bowl Reboot Premiere (June 22 on NBC) – Peyton Manning hosts.
–Card Sharks Season Premiere (June 23 on ABC)
–Conan Series Finale (June 24 on TBS) – Headed to HBO Max.
–The Good Fight Season 5 Premiere (June 24 on Paramount+)
–RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars Season 6 Premiere (June 24 on Paramount+)
–When Nature Calls with Helen Mirren (June 24 on ABC) – Something with animals.
Music
-H.E.R., Back of My Mind
January 6, 2021
jmunney
Best of 2020, Best of TV 2020, Television
A.P. Bio, American Dad!, Animaniacs, Beef House, Best of 2020, Better Call Saul, Big Mouth, Dispatches From Elsewhere, How to with John Wilson, Joe Pera Talks with You, Killing Eve, Middleditch & Schwartz, Never Have I Ever, PEN15, Rick and Morty, Search Party, The Baby-Sitters Club, The Mandalorian, What We Do in the Shadows, Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist
(CREDIT: FX/YouTube Screenshot)
When making Best Episode lists, some TV critics limit themselves to one entry per show, but I never operate by that self-imposition, as certain shows are just masterful when crafting a single hour or half-hour (or whatever runtime they feel like using), and that ought to be reflected in the ledger. So you’ll find that several shows have wound up more than once in this list, and those tended to be the ones that also fared the best on my Best Shows of 2020 list. You’ll also find at least one program that didn’t make my Best Shows list, as it’s possible to have one excellent outing within an otherwise disappointing season. So forthwith, if someone who missed all TV in 2020 asked me for a refresher, here is where I would direct them:
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January 4, 2021
jmunney
Best of 2020, Best of TV 2020, Television
A.P. Bio, American Dad!, American Housewife, Animaniacs, Aunty Donna's Big Ol' House of Fun, B Positive, Beef House, Best of 2020, Better Call Saul, Better Things, Big Mouth, black-ish, Bob's Burgers, Bojack Horseman, Devs, Dicktown, Dispatches From Elsewhere, Earth to Ned, Fargo, Full Frontal with Samantha Bee, grown-ish, His Dark Materials, Holey Moley, How to with John Wilson, Jeopardy!, Joe Pera Talks with You, Last Week Tonight, Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Match Game, McMillion$, Mike Tyson Mysteries, mixed-ish, Mrs. America, Muppets Now, Nancy Drew, Never Have I Ever, Normal People, PEN15, Rick and Morty, RIverdale, RuPaul's Drag Race, Saved by the Bell, Search Party, Sex Education, Solar Opposites, Stargirl, Superstore, The Conners, The Eric Andre Show, The Goldbergs, The Good Fight, The Good Lord Bird, The Last Dance, The Last O.G., The Mandalorian, The Masked Singer, The New Pope, The Plot Against America, The Twilight Zone, The Unicorn, Three Busy Debras, Unorthodox, What We Do in the Shadows, Who Wants to be a Millionaire?, Whose Line is it Anyway?, Wilmore, Young Sheldon, Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist
Clockwise from Top Left: What We Do in the Shadows, Never Have I Ever, Better Call Saul, How To with John Wilson (CREDIT: YouTube Screenshots)
Last year, I decided to rank as many TV shows as I felt like recognizing in my year-end list, and that worked out so well that I decided to do it again for 2020. So welcome to my ranking of the 67 Best TV Shows of 2020! Not every show is accompanied by a blurb, just the ones that I felt like I really needed to say something about.
I worked with a self-imposed rule that I had to have watched at least 50% of a show’s 2020 output for it to be eligible, but there were some shows that I’ve only just begun to watch that I wanted to recognize as well, so they’ve got their own Honorable Mention section. And there were also some shows that aired relatively few episodes in 2020 to the point that I didn’t think they should be eligible either, so they’ve also got an Honorable Mention section. And then there’s one more show that’s managed to establish its very own Honorable Mention section, and that’s where we start.
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