17 thoughts on “FAVORITE TV PROGRAMS OF 2019

  1. Steve Oerkfitz

    Watchmen was my favorite this year.
    The rest not in any order:

    Mindhunter
    Bill Maher
    Last week With John Oliver
    Game of Thrones
    Barry
    Unbelievable
    Chernobyl
    Lodge 49
    Peaky Blinders
    Bosch
    Sneaky Pete
    The Simpsons
    Billions

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    1. george Post author

      Steve, many of my friends watched CHERNOBYL and came away impressed. I like THE SIMPSONS but I don’t watch it consistently. I have a Blu-ray set of the first season of BILLIONS but haven’t watched it yet.

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      1. Jeff Meyerson

        We watched the five episodes of CHERNOBYL last week (HBO On Demand) and were impressed too, but I had to mark it down a little for the ways it deviated from, you know, the facts.

      2. george Post author

        Jeff, I’ve read about Chernobyl so watching a mini-series about it didn’t interest me. But my friends tell me it was well done.

    1. george Post author

      Patti, I though Kevin Bacon was terrific in CITY ON A HILL. He plays a corrupt FBI investigator. SHOWTIME has renewed CITY ON A HILL for a second season.

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  2. Jeff Meyerson

    No interest in CITY ON A HILL and refuse on principle to watch anything about Fox News. We don’t have CBS All Access or Disney Plus, so those are out. Thanks for reminding me about GOOD OMENS, which I’d totally forgotten.

    Favorites include:

    Watchmen
    Unbelievable
    Last Week Tonight With John Oliver
    Unforgotten (British)
    Bosch
    Gentleman Jack (British)
    Russian Doll
    Dead to Me
    Shtisel (Israeli)
    The Ministry of Time (Spain)

    Probably others I’ve forgotten.

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  3. Michael Padgett

    I’m wondering whether anyone else will admit to watching 2-3 episodes of “Watchmen”, realizing they didn’t have the slightest clue what the hell was going on, and quit. I’d never read the graphic novel, but had seen Zack Snyder’s ten year old movie version and remembered absolutely nothing about it. What made my disappointment especially galling was that Damon Lindelof was responsible for two of my favorite tv shows EVER, “Lost” and “The Leftovers”. I had pretty much the same experience watching the first few episodes of “The Wire” years ago. But with that one I went back and tried again a year or so later and zipped right through it.

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  4. Rick Robinson

    I assume these are all series. Since you didn’t list them, and the stations/networks/channels/providers they are on, I have no idea where on would see these things. We’re watching a little more TV these days, but none of these seems to show up when I look. I do know one of them is on DisneyPlus, which we don’t have. Guess I’ll read a BOOK.

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    1. george Post author

      Rick, here’s the breakdown: WATCHMEN (HBO)
      GOOD OMENS (AMAZON PRIME Video)
      THE MANDALORIAN (Disney+)
      STAR TREK Discovery (CBS All Access)
      CITY ON A HILL (SHOWTIME)
      THE LOUDEST VOICE (SHOWTIME)

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