A lot of comedians have talked about the kind of bits they showed their friends and obsessed over while growing up. For me, I think 2012 is emblematic of that. There are so many episodes from this year that I showed over and over again to my friends. They must have been so sick of me. But seriously, those Thursday night lineups on NBC were so formative. I'll appreciate and miss them forever. Community & Parks were SO neck and neck here. My god.
The honorable ones: Final seasons begin for The Office & Breaking Bad, CBB, Phantom Gourmet, Halloween Wars, the East/West Bowl, Girls & Veep begin, Today, the Chuck finale, Colbert, and A Young Doctor's Notebook.
2014 was about the year when I started getting really into movies. Television was a ways away, but I was beginning to think more about my experience with it, rather than just passively watching it or obsessing over The Office and Community. 2014 marked the ends of some eras, but I think it was really marked by a lot of experimental, bold storytelling. As if the mainstream had finally earned it.
Some honorables: First half of Mad Men's end, Psych's end, the soaring heights of HIMYM's end, Veep, BoJack, "Background Check," Girls, Americans, Brooklyn, Sweden, "Optimal Tip-to-Tip Efficiency," Cosmos, Spoils of Babylon, Billy on the Street, Late Night with Seth Meyers.
My all-time favorite TV shows
Years: 2012
by Dave Wheelroute