In no particular order...

-Station 11
-The Bear
-Abbott Elementary
-Yellowjackets
-Severance
-Andor
-Our Flag Means Death
-Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities
-The Resort
-Shining Girls
-The Dropout
-The Afterparty
-Pam and Tommy

What were the best shows you saw this year? Anything missing from my list that you'd recommend?

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Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio came out on Netflix this weekend! It’s a gorgeous stop-motion film, I really loved it.

Charming, full of heart, great performances, nuanced animation…just wonderful. Very much GDT’s signature, with childlike wonder and realities of death against the backdrop of Mussolini’s fascist Italy.

Plus it was animated here in PDX!

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Every person on a game where the only point is lying: “I HATE being lied to!!”

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However—minor spoilers if you're aiming to go in fresh—there's not really a role for viewer-as-player.

We know who the traitors are from the start, so it's really just about observing the drama, rather than trying to figure things out for ourselves.

The challenges seem a little pointless too. They're in vs. teams but there's no sabotage (a la De Mol). Mostly designed for TV spectacle.

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Haven't seen Dutch or Australian versions. And I heard that they filmed the US version alongside the UK one. My fav thing about these shows is watching all of them to compare design and gameplay strategy, so that'll be fun!

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This seems like a fun show that plays with some Werewolf elements. 20 players, 3 traitors. They all work together (ie, no sabotage) to earn money. Each night, the traitors 'kill' someone, each day, the group ('faithful') vote someone out of the village.

Anyone else watching?

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Another very fun detail for Guillermo Del Toro fans: there's a small Easter egg reference to Crimson Peak, one of my favorite movies of all time!

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Have been watching Del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities episodes piecemeal and was v excited for The Viewing (episode 7), by the writer-director pair that did Mandy. Was not disappointed!

It sets up an intriguing atmosphere that doesn't overstay its welcome, and a mystery box that actually pays off. And the aesthetic is perfection.

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Enjoyed this a lot. In a near-future world without pain or infection, what is intimacy, art, change?

It has familiar Cronenberg elements I love: bespoke organic machinery, human evolution, drifting dreamlike eroticism, body-technology ports, beautiful decay of run-down buildings.

And the way he understands/frames physicality and pain means the fleshy stuff doesn't bother me.

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