2020 was a great year. For television. Last year I watched 57 shows, and there were 7 I started but didn't finish. This year? 79 shows and 6 that I started but didn't finish.
Of the shows in my Top 20 last year, Watchmen, Modern Love, and Spy were all one season shows. You're the Worst, Fleabag, Veronica Mars and I'm Sorry all ended. Barry, Stranger Things, and Atypical all didn't have a new season this year. Only three notably missed the Top 20. Letterkenny was just outside it, Sex Education missed it by about five spots, and Shrill had a huge, disappointing second season drop in quality.
In the Top 20, 7 came from Netflix, 5 shows come from networks and Hulu, 3 from Prime, 2 from CBS All Access, 2 from Apple+, 1 from Disney+, and 1 from HBO. So in pure math terms, Netflix and Hulu are the best streaming services for me, especially since I watched 21 shows on Hulu and 21 on Netflix. However... Apple+ gave me two absolute killer shows in Ted Lasso and Mythic Quest, and they are more than worth the $5/month. Disney+ has a *flood* of Marvel and Star Wars content coming, and CBS All Access has one of my consistent favorite shows with Star Trek Discovery, plus Picard, Lower Decks, and the excellent Good Fight, and CBS solid sitcom The Unicorn. Even Prime stepped up this year with The Boys, Marvelous Mrs. Maisel and Utopia, all of which have more coming.
In fact, if I had to drop one streaming service, it would probably be HBO Max, which had one great show in Lovecraft Country and a couple decent ones but definitely doesn't earn it's high $15/month price tag. Of course, it's going to have brand new movies from Warner Brothers every month, so for movie fans it'll probably be worth it. At any rate, if I was ranking streaming services in 2020 alone, it would go this way:
- Netflix
- Apple+
- Hulu
- CBS All Access
- Disney+
- HBO Max
Top 10 Ongoing Shows:
- The Good Place Season 4 (Last year #2)
- Star Trek Discovery Season 3 (Last year #4)
- The Mandalorian Season 2 (Last year #2 New)
- What We Do In The Shadows Season 2 Last year #3 New)
- The Boys Season 2 (Last year #10 new)
- Umbrella Academy Season 2 (Last year #7)
- Marvelous Mrs. Maisel Season 3
- Cobra Kai Season 2
- Brooklyn Nine-Nine Season 7 (Last year missed top 10 by 3 spots)
- The Politician Season 2 (Last year #6 New)
- Ted Lasso
- High Fidelity
- Dave
- Lovecraft Country
- Never Have I Ever
- Mythic Quest: Raven's Banquet
- Star Trek Picard
- Haunting of Bly Manor
- Queen's Gambit
- Utopia
- The Good Place
- Ted Lasso
- Star Trek Discovery
- The Mandalorian
- High Fidelity
- Dave
- What We Do In The Shadows
- The Boys
- Lovecraft Country
- Never Have I Ever
- Umbrella Academy
- Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
- Mythic Quest: Raven's Banquet
- Cobra Kai
- Star Trek Picard
- Haunting of Bly Manor
- Brooklyn Nine-Nine
- The Politician
- Letterkenny
- Queen's Gambit
- Utopia
- Last Week Tonight
- Mad About You
- Tiger King
- Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist
- AP Bio
- Sex Education
- Westworld
- Love Life
- The Good Fight
- Animaniacs
- Doom Patrol
- Teenage Bounty Hunters
- Future Man
- The Unicorn
- Stumptown
- Evil
- Better Call Saul
- 616
- Stargirl
- The Good Lord Bird
- Reprisal
- Mrs. America
- The Expanse
- Dragon Prince
- Star Wars Clone Wars
- Harley Quinn
- Transformers War for Cybertron
- Star Trek Lower Decks
- Central Park
- The Holiday Movies That Made Us
- Dracula
- The Outsider
- Avenue 5
- Truth Seekers
- I Am Not OK With This
- Hip-Hop Evolution
- Perfect Harmony
- The Floor is Lava
- Upload
- Seduced
- Truth Seekers
- Lucifer
- Away
- Ratched
- Devs
- McMillions
- Eater's Guide to the World
- Taste the Nation
- The Great Pretender
- Solar Opposites
- #BlackAF
- LEGO Masters
- The Great
- The Vow
- Little Fires Everywhere
- Top Chef
- Disney Gallery The Mandalorian
- Ugly/Delicious
- Shrill
- Raised by Wolves
- Motherland: Fort Salem
- I'll Be Gone in the Dark
- The Flight Attendant
- Altered Carbon
- Fargo
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