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"The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power" (Photo: Ben Rothstein/Prime Video)
40. The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power
Original name:
Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power
Broadcast body:
Amazon Prime Video
Countless virtual pages and video players were filled with rage this year about Amazon Prime Video's prequel to the celebrated "Lord of the Rings" trilogy.
While some seem to stem from an automatic hatred of Amazon's mere pretense of touching Tolkien's material, others are certainly justified.
Throughout the first eight episodes of the most valuable series in television history, "Rings of Power" struggled to produce fascinating, interesting, clever or surprising storylines.
In fact, she seems to have saved almost all of her ammunition for the mystery about the identity of a key character, which the entire season has been hovering around.
And in general, relative to so much money and resources, it's hard to think of more than one memorable scene from it.
So how after all this, is it not after all the colossal failure that so many book fans insist on?
Mainly because the little that "The Lord of the Rings" succeeded in, was impressive and in some cases also exciting.
The relationships of Elrond and Dorin, Nori and Poppy, Nori and the Stranger, and for episodes even Gadriel and Halbrand, created caring and commitment towards them and their fate.
In all the grandeur and richness of The Lord of the Rings, this part is the most important of all.
It seems that its creators realized this towards its end - the last episodes are increasingly focused on places and connections that did manage to impress.
It wasn't perfect, it had to be much better, yet it was enough to give her more breathing room.
In view of the creators' promises for a much more tense second season, now that the tools have been put on the board, perhaps the value of the episodes we received this year is only expected to increase.
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A brilliant and sad attitude.
"Secrets in the Backyard" (Photo: HBO)
39. Backyard secrets
Original name:
Landscapers
Broadcasting body:
Sky, HBO (in Israel Bis and Hot)
British crime series are a kind of genre in itself.
Always focused, superbly acted to the point of incredible, closing the story within four or six or eight episodes, even if there is another season.
But in the end, not many of them leave a real mark in the annals.
"Backyard Secrets" is the opposite example, surpassing other series of its kind for its brilliant - and oh so sad - approach to the story it tells.
Olivia Colman ("The Crown", "Fleebag") and David Thewlis ("Fargo 3", "Sandman") star as the real-life couple Susan and Christopher Edwards, apparently normal people, loving and sensitive, movie buffs, whose two bodies of Susan's parents are discovered in the yard Their home a decade after they disappeared.
The series, created by Ed Sinclair, Coleman's partner, and directed by Will Sharp (also known as an actor, who broke out this year in the role of Ethan in "The White Lotus"), follows the couple as their secret is revealed and they themselves deny any involvement in the matter.
But it soon becomes clear that their denial stems from repression.
Layer by layer, "Secrets in the Backyard" reveals the lives and past of Susan and Christopher, turning their great love for movies into an artistic tool through which the series emphasizes the fantasies they - and especially Susan - live in, due to tragic circumstances that forced them to seek refuge in every sense.
We've seen stories like this before, but we haven't seen them told like this - and it's creative,
emotion please
"Gentleman Jack" (Photo: HBO)
38. Gentleman Jack
Original name:
Gentleman Jack
Broadcasting body:
BBC, HBO (in Israel Bis, Hot and Cellcom TV)
One of the unfortunate cancellations of the year.
The spirited period drama about the subversive Ann Lister, who insisted on living her life as she saw fit, will not get a third season, but it left an indelible mark.
Not least thanks to the excellent performance of Suran Jones, but also thanks to the impressive period reconstruction of the York landscapes from the 19th century, the lightness that combines a dramatic story with many winks and comedic moments, and the impressive performance of the supporting stars - especially Anne's sister, Marian (J Ma Whelan, "Game of Thrones"), a changeling wheel her whole life who tries in vain to find independence in the giant's shadow.
Everything helped make "Gentleman Jack" great in general, and the second season even injected the whole story with a flight of raw emotion thanks to the triangle between Ann Lister, her partner Ann Walker and the former's ex, Mariana Lawton.
The resentful longing of the latter, who was sure that her lover would wait for you while trapped in a bad marriage to a man older than her, was powerful and very touching.
Apart from its entertaining quality, "Gentleman Jack" is a groundbreaking work about a pioneer who does not make an issue of her pioneering.
In a certain sense, the conservative Ann Lister is the great modern ideal: a woman who does what she wants with whomever she wants, and sees nothing unusual about it.
It's a bit amusing that you have to go back in time to experience such an ideal scenario, but "Gentleman Jack" proves that it is definitely possible.
One of the best episodes in the series.
"Love, Death and Robots" (Photo: Netflix)
37. Love, death and robots
Original name:
Love, Death & Robots
Broadcast body:
Netflix
Many talked about "Love, Death and Robots" when its first season came out.
The animated anthology series created by David Fincher and Tim Miller for Netflix, focuses every episode on a different story from the worlds of fantasy, fantasy and folklore, each of them written and directed by other creators with different animation techniques and in a different genre. Accordingly, not all episodes are uniform in their level , but all of them are interesting, edgy or thought-provoking to one degree or another. The first season from 2019 had 18 short episodes, and as expected, the lack of uniformity was very prominent in it. Starting with the second season, the series is content with a smaller number of episodes in each cluster, and also abandoned the lewd angle that was present Very much in the first season - choices made with the series Chesed.
It is more evident than ever in the third season, which arrived this year.
This time too there is no uniformity between the episodes, as always in anthology series, but all of them are likable and above all, original to one degree or another ("Night of the Little Dead" is one of the great ones in this sense), and at its peak the season includes two of the most beautiful episodes in the series: Alberto's spectacular "Hibaru" Milego, who already won an Emmy for his episode from the first season, "The Testimony," is a wordless action about Japanese occupiers who encounter a jewel-encrusted murderous siren;
And especially "Hard Journey" directed by Fincher himself.
The first experience in animation of the director of classics such as "Fight Club" and "The Social Network" turns out to be a great victory.
In his hands, the story about sailors who encounter a sea monster that takes over their ship, becomes a psychological and claustrophobic horror story that is gripping, full of twists and unforgettable.
Reflects the female experience.
"She-Hulk: A lawyer in the service of the law" (Photo: Marvel)
36. Shay-Halk: Lawyer in the legal service
Original name:
She-Hulk: Attorney at Law
Broadcaster:
Disney Plus
Like "Wandhovision" before it, "She-Hulk" is not satisfied with a tribute to comedies, but tries to be one itself.
Although she usually does this not with great success, she mainly relies on her general grace, which she has in abundance.
Tatiana Maslany in the lead role is great as always.
Similar to her breakthrough role in "Orphan Black" she literally carries the series on her shoulders, and this time it is so even when she turns into a green giantess with the most embarrassing special effects ever seen in the Marvel universe, and a design that includes hair that for some reason becomes smooth, wavy and distracting instead of the original curls of Jennifer, her human form.
Every now and then the series also shines with a great brilliance that justifies everything.
The biggest of them is the character of Medicine, the drunken ballerina from the fourth episode of the season, who must reappear in one way or another in the Marvel Universe.
Maybe she will be the salvation the franchise desperately needs after such a mediocre fourth phase.
And as in "Vandhuizen", here too a more significant statement crawls under the comedy.
The great and eye-opening advantage of "She-Hulk" is the way in which it reflects the female experience in the character of the heroine.
From the fact that now that she's huge and almost invincible she can walk around wearing headphones at night, to dealing with a secret photo of her sleeping with someone, which sends her into an understandable and justified tantrum that she's still expected to quell.
In fact, Jennifer/She-Hulk is the only character in the history of the Marvel Cinematic Universe to have an active sex life.
This is no small matter not only thanks to the pioneering in the sterile world of Marvel in Disney until now, but mainly because it is part of an interesting journey of a heroine who is looking for love and intimacy at a time when she must settle the way she is perceived by each of her characters - not in the eyes of the general public but specifically in the eyes of men .
The blood and fire is still ahead.
"House of the Dragon" (Photo: Ollie Upton/HBO)
35. House of the Dragon
Original name:
House of the Dragon
Broadcasting body:
HBO (in Israel Bis, Hot and Cellcom TV)
There is no way to make it better, comparing the first season of "Game of Thrones" to that of its subsidiary series, the original wins by a huge margin.
"House of the Dragon" failed to introduce us to even one character that we care about, such as Arya or Tyrion.
And yet, something about epicness and bombast works.
"Dragon House" calculates its way forward, and accordingly, the more it progresses, the more interesting and immersive it is.
HBO has made this format the standard - series whose build-up leads to a big payoff at the end of the season.
And considering the fact that the series is based on the skeleton of an existing story by George R.R. Martin (if it can indeed be called a story - in fact "Blood and Fire" is more of a made-up history book), it was clear that the season was striving for an explosion, and that in fact the main part of the blood and fire More to come, in the coming seasons.
Even so, there were no shortage of good moments in the first season (spoilers from here).
The battle of the dragons in the last episode is superbly done as it is dramatic and sad, and undoubtedly marks more than anything the direction in which the series strives - tragedies on top of these giant monsters.
Rhaenys' escape in episode nine on the back of her dragon during Aegon's coronation is hollow in retrospect but still incendiary.
The dying of Viserys in the eighth episode was excellent, you could really feel him dying from the world.
The family drama that preceded it around the dinner table was charged and strong.
The difficult childbirth scenes throughout the season illustrated the battlefields that these women had to face, and the physical and mental powers inherent in them.
like a hug
"Trying" (Photo: Apple TV Plus)
34. Trying
Original name:
Trying
Broadcaster:
Apple TV Plus
This is probably the most kitschy series that has ever entered this list, and it's not even entirely American, although it is funded by Apple TV Plus, but the third season of "Trying" proved that persistence pays off, in more ways than one one.
The British comedy falls deep into the category of "Feel Good" television, series that float on cotton candy pink where everything is cute and all right in twenty minutes.
Indeed, the attempts of Jason (Raife Spall, "The Money Machine", "Life of Pi") and Nikki (Esther Smith, mainly theater) to adopt came to their happy and expected end in the previous season and it seemed that the script obstacle had been removed and the series no longer had the right to exist.
But precisely the attempts to connect with the children, the fear of losing them and the effect of expanding the family on the marital relationship managed to charge the series with much broader and universal meanings,
Of course, nonsense such as "every member of the family and friends has nothing better to do than to show up as one supporter every time there is a problem" is still present in it in a sickening way, and ending each episode with an acoustic ballad is a disgusting television practice that should have stayed in the 2000s, but this whole business Made equal by Nikki and Jason's relationship, which is the healthiest couple thing on screen.
The way they know, support, lift, integrate and love each other is simply captivating and sometimes feels like one big hug that manages to break through the boundaries of the small screen.
In the current season, and in the current year that has passed outside of it, "Manas" was an essential duvet worth swallowing a little kitsch for once in a while.
For the first time, the child is not addressed in the minds of the viewers.
"Andor" (Photo: Disney)
33. Andor
Original name:
Andor
Broadcasting body:
Disney Plus
Disney Plus is perhaps the biggest representative of what can be called abrasive abundance.
What used to be an event that comes once a year, or even every few years, like the Marvel movies and Star Wars, has become in the last three years a matter of routine.
One that may gain impressive viewing figures, but at the same time erodes the thrill as well as the quality.
Perhaps this is the reason why the newest series from the Star Wars universe, "Endor", did not reach the top of the ratings like its predecessors.
It's a real shame, because she is very successful and for a change is doing something really different in terms of tone and creative direction.
In fact, "Endor" is the first work from this universe that you can say doesn't try to appeal to the child in the viewer's soul (ie, if you've never liked the inherent infantilism of "Star Wars", there's a place for you too).
This is a mature and complex series created by Tony Gilroy, a man who knows a thing or two about stories of this type (as in the Jason Bourne movies he wrote).
Even though it is not perfect, mainly because Diego Luna in the lead role is a bit of a fur, it is an intriguing, inspiring and more relevant action than ever about fascism and resistance to it, and by the way creates interesting characters on both sides of the fence.
The way the series is composed also does it a favor: every three episodes in it, more or less, unfolds one story that is also part of the whole, and each of them provides a different experience from the other: a robbery plot, an escape from prison, and the like.
In doing so, it makes good use of the weekly television medium, while at the same time still relying on the broad stories known from the cinematic adventures of the universe.
Even for those who have withdrawn their hands from everything "Star Wars", "Andor" is a pleasant surprise.
breaking records.
"Wednesday" (Photo: Matthias Clamer/Netflix)
32. Wednesday
Original name:
Wednesday
Broadcaster:
Netflix
We'd be lying if we said we understood how this macabre teenage suspense comedy became such a huge success - the most successful English-language series in Netflix history after the fourth season of "Stranger Things."
Perhaps the answer to this is simple: "Wednesday" is a great series that balances its mix well.
The creators of the series (who previously made "Smallville", so they know a thing or two about series about teenagers with superpowers) know how to take all the great ingredients that made up "The Addams Family" and brew something fun and fluid from them.
Very easily it could have gone very wrong, but the series manages to do something that is almost impossible - to play on motifs of darkness and gloom without losing its sense of humor and without taking itself too seriously.
Many series in recent years have tried to do this and failed, many of them on Netflix.
The series manages to combine different genres very well - it's a black comedy, of course, that's its DNA, but it's also a coming-of-age story that uses some of the well-known and well-worn story templates of teen series, especially those with a supernatural element, and makes them Hers. The new girl arrives at magical school; finds herself sharing a room with a roommate who represents everything she can't stand; develops a rivalry with the most popular girl; plans to fly away as fast as possible but becomes entangled in a murder mystery she's determined to solve; never mind One, but despite her freezing gaze somehow captures the hearts of at least two boys; sees herself as a lone wolf but gathers a bunch of supportive students around her. Wednesday thinks she is destined to be lonely and therefore isolates herself, rejecting anyone who tries to approach her and be friends. It's a very interesting way to reflect on this topic without being didactic, and it's also a balance that this series manages to keep very nicely.
(Songs of Yeshua)
The bet paid off.
"Legendary Journey" (Photo: Apple TV Plus)
31. A legendary journey
Original name:
Mythic Quest
Broadcasting body:
Apple TV Plus in the
2021 chart:
34th place
Although Apple's comedy preserves the changes that ended its second season and their effect on the characters and their dynamics, it continues (or returns, and that too after two weaker opening episodes) To be the same fun, inclusive and funny series as in the first season.
She uses the changes to freshen up, and does so cleverly.
It's not just a refresh that comes from different connections between the familiar characters, but the season also includes teaming up between characters that we may have already seen together before, only that one of them has changed a lot in a way that reflects on everything.
The bold bet made by "Legendary Journey" paid off.
The changes breathe life into the third season, and also cover up the parts that are less uplifting in it.
This is what is successful in "Legendary Journey".
Even when she loses her way, it is evident that this is part of the adventure - as befits its name - and not an attempt to settle for what seems to work.
The new season illustrates even more that at this stage the creators prefer to add and poke around the characters and challenge them and themselves.
This is how the series manages to reach new comedic realms without losing what makes it what it is.
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