Hello bookhumans! Although I don’t blog often, I’ve decided to really step up my game and actively post, and since we’re nearing the end of the year, I am going to share with you my top 10 TV shows I watched this year and why I love them so much. Let’s get straight into it!
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NUMBER 10: STRANGER THINGS
Stranger Things is a show that has everything I love in a show—great characters, lots of stabbing, interesting plot and awesome acting. Despite this, something about the show just doesn’t click for me? Don’t get me wrong, I love it, but it lacks the mind-control voodoo that sucks me into the great Netflix hole of beautiful evil.
Some plot lines definitely grab my attention more than others and I will never find Eleven particularly interesting, but this is still a show that I would highly recommend, and I know it’s a lot of people’s absolute favourites.
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NUMBER 9: GIRLBOSS
This show was an absolute blast! I found it so entertaining and funny, and Sophia was a great character, as morally ambiguous as I’d hoped. This show didn’t get great reviews, since plenty of people hated the protagonist, so we only get one season. But that makes it a quick watch, so just give it a try to see how you like it!
Girlboss follows a young woman named Sophia, who hates her job and wants to do work that doesn’t really require true working. After quitting her job, she begins to search through second-hand stores, finding bargains, altering them, and selling them online under the name Nasty Gal. This is a based off a true story.
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NUMBER 8: DON’T TRUST THE B—- IN APARTMENT 23
This show was so much fun! Chloe and June, our two leads, are so different and that makes them hilarious together. In the first episode, Chloe cons June, whose response is selling all of Chloe’s furniture. As roomates, their personalities just constantly clash, making for an amusing, entertaining show. Highly recommend!
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NUMBER 7: 13 REASONS WHY
This show was… well, highly depressing. It also deals with many confronting messages in a way that is both poetic and entertaining. I’m sure you’ve heard of 13 Reasons Why, but if not, it’s the story of Clay Jensen, who is dealing with the suicide of his friend, Hannah Baker, when he receives a set of tapes. These tapes audio tapes of Hannah, telling the story of the 13 Reasons Why she killed herself. Hannah’s story is revealed through these tapes, offering a new perspective on how our seemingly insignificant actions can have a major effect on someone else.
This is a beautiful story and I would highly recommend watching this and reading the book. Warning: many people have said that this story glorifies suicide, as Hannah’s death has positive effects and she exacted revenge on those who hurt her and changed them into better people. I disagree, since her death also hurt her loved ones. I just want to say that even if you seek help that is ineffective, you will find a health professional that can help you through it, and suicide shouldn’t have to be a final resort.
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NUMBER 6: TEEN WOLF
I’ve wanted to watch Teen Wolf for years, and I finally got around to it this year! And OH MY GOD, I loved it. The characters were unique and wonderful; Stiles and Malia being my personal favourites. The dialogue was clever, witty and well-delivered. I wouldn’t have even cared if the plot sucked—the humour and characters were what truly made the story.
If you don’t know a lot about Teen Wolf, it follows a teenager named Scott McCall, who is bitten by a werewolf in the woods. He has to balance his new-found athletic ability, his relationships, his secrets and you know, being a werewolf. His best friend Stiles is simply the one true reason everyone watched the show, both because he’s played by Dylan O’Brien and the fact that he is HILARIOUS and dorky and nerdy and perfect. Definitely watch this show if you haven’t already, especially if you’re a fan of the Vampire Diaries. Which brings us to Number 5.
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NUMBER 5: THE VAMPIRE DIARIES
This is very low on my list this year, despite taking out the number 1 spot on my favourite TV shows of all time. This list only includes what I watched this year, however, and while I really enjoyed Season 8, it wasn’t quite as good as the rest of the show. Still, Damon was as fantastic as ever, and the cast is fantastic, and this show will forever be fantastic. I would give you a basic outline of the show, but really, season 1 was a long time ago, and the premise doesn’t really do the show justice. I will say, though, TVD Season 1 doesn’t get good until Episode 7, at least for me. So I’d skim the first few and pick it up there, or at least give it a chance until then.
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NUMBER 4: GILMORE GIRLS
I finally took the plunge! After years of stalling, I finally watched Gilmore Girls. No regrets, since it’s ABSOLUTELY FANTASIC. I can’t even describe my love for this show. Lorelai Gilmore makes questionable decisions, but is ultimately hilarious and always ready for a quick quip, particularly with her daughter, Lorelai ‘Rory’ Gilmore, an Ivy-league bound teenager, her overbearing mother Emily and the guy who pours her coffee, Luke Danes. She had Rory when she was sixteen, and moved to the charming, quirky town of Stars Hollow, where she manages an inn and dreams to open her own inn one day with her partner and chef, Sookie St James. This is a light-hearted, fun, super entertaining show to watch and my sister Lainey and I binged it super quick. I don’t love the show after season 5, but still. Highly recommend. You’ll love it.
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NUMBER 3: LUCIFER
This might be Number 2. I dunno. It’s great and I’m still tossing up between this show and my selection for second place. Lucifer is sort of like a series of murder mysteries, but also following one plot line simultaneously. It’s witty, hilarious, offers new perspectives and is just so damn entertaining. And it’s stabby, which obviously improves the show by 100%.
Lucifer follows the story of (you have 10 guesses, folks) sassy and irreverent Lucifer, the Lord of Hell, Prince of Darkness, the actual devil. Anyway, our good Ol’ fallen angel has decided to ditch his gig as the torturer of evil souls and move to LA to run a nightclub called Lux with his demon buddy Mazikeen ‘Maze’ (who is beyond badass, I love her). When an old friend of his, Delilah, is murdered, Lucifer works with homicide detective Chloe Decker to solve her murder, sparking a partnership between the two. Each episode is a new murder mystery and it’s so fun! I absolutely love it and my brother and I are currently binge watching it.
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NUMBER 2: THE GOOD PLACE
This show was one hilarious whirlwind. If you’re looking for a show to binge-watch, this is the one. I watched it in two days; it’s addictive and so, so funny. (Humour is a recurring factor in my favourites!)
The Good Place is heaven, and our lead, Eleanor Shellstrop, is dead. Eleanor is played by Kristen Bell, who is excellent. To give a brief outline of the show, Eleanor is told that she has made it to the Good Place, a feat only one in a million people achieve. Michael, the architect of Eleanor’s Good Place neighbourhood, reads out a list of Eleanor’s good deeds. The problem is, Eleanor did none of these things, and was actually a terrible person on Earth. We watch as Eleanor recruits ethics professor Chidi, her soulmate, to teach her ‘how to be good’, so that she can evade te dreaded Bad Place. Eleanor’s ‘do-good’ attempts are just hilarious. If you’re not too sure about this show, go and watch the season 1 trailer. The trailer captures the feel of the show, I find, and if you like it, you’ll definitely like The Good Place. It’s quirky, really weird and hilarious, so if that’s what you like, I HIGHLY RECOMMEND. GO WATCH IT!
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AND THE NUMBER 1 SHOW THAT I WATCHED IN 2017 IS… *drumroll* *loud music* : HOW TO GET AWAY WITH MURDER
No, I don’t love this show because I’m an aspiring murderer (actually, now that I mention it), I love it because it was suspenseful, addictive and downright AWESOME. I loved how each episode began with a snippet of a large future event and then we filled in the timeline as the season progressed. I loved how badass the characters were and how they kicked ass in court. I loved solving the small lawyer mysteries each episode and how they could ‘get away with murder’, both in the courtroom and in real life, when they actually kill people. The four law students, Connor, Laurel, Michaela and Wes were flawed and real and Annalise Keating, our badass lawyer, was just so complex and fantastic. While it was unfortunately lacking in humour, there were still amusing moments. This show is just so gripping and addictive. My favourite TV show of 2017!
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Let me know in the comments what your favourite show of this year is! Hopefully you found some good recommendations above as we near the holiday season.
Bye-bye!
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