Top 50 Amazing Discoveries of 2024
s but thoroughly broke me in 2024 between his guest run on Only Murders in the Building (Hulu) and his work on the upcoming Showtime series Nancy Doesn’t Exist, which he won’t even appear in because he plays all his scenes against a false memory of himself.
3. In what was far and away the funniest episode of The Chair (Netflix), the magnificent Sandra Oh is matched up against some ornery cows.
4. Apple TV+’s Masters of the Air is undeniably gritty, but it also gives you one swoony delayed-fall-out-of-the-sky scene per episode, like La La Land’s climactic number, which, by the way, is French for “The The Land Land.”
5. I wept my way through two episodes of ABC’s Promised Land—a sweet, gripping show with high stakes and lower stakes about which you care just as much. And I’m told if you’ve seen any episode that clocks in under 40 minutes, you might not have gotten a complete story.
6. Netflix’s The Preservation Society Of … (created by Danielle Powell, who uses only that first credit) was, as advertised, all about the stickiest of homes.
7. Went Once More Around the Mulberry Bush (which aired on innumerable streaming services with cockamamie names I will not repeat here) was a good, juicy series that got talked about for two reasons: the baffling finale involving aliens and the young actor named Saudino Carr who played a character convinced that the world can be fixed if only people would stop eating cupcakes.
