Best TV shows of 2019: 'Russian Doll,' 'Good Omens,' 'Wayne'
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Best TV shows of 2019: 'Russian Doll,' 'Good Omens,' 'Wayne'

LA Times  

Another year, another 10,042 television shows from which to make a list. This is not a “best” list — a poor word to apply to something as wide-ranging, unquantifiable and subject to taste as television. They were all new in 2019, a self-imposed restriction that leaves out “Schitt’s Creek” and “Fleabag,” but which seems only fair to the mass of fresh TV teeming at the critical shore. I’m somewhat surprised to find, looking over the list, that more than half involve some sort of supernatural element; perhaps it’s because they’re able to play with form and ideas in ways that more everyday series are not, or that there’s just a lot of that stuff around nowadays, reality failing our present needs. There are enough villains dressed as heroes in the world I get as news; these shows, in their various ways, stand up for life, love, difference and possibility.

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