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Popes, killers, mysteries and histories: my favorite TV shows of 2017
“Let’s rock.”
The year 2017 may have been a terrible year for the credibility of the United States of America, but it was an awesome year for dramatic television. To get away from the rapid-fire barrage of political scandal and natural disaster, I ended up spending many hours watching serial dramas.
If your favorite show isn’t on the list, it’s probably my fault (I never got around to Big Little Lies, and Black Mirror Season 4 arrived a little too late to review) but here is a list of my five favorite shows released in 2017.
“They chose a pope they didn’t know. And today, they began to understand….” — Jude Law as “Lenny Belardo.”
5. The Young Pope. HBO/Sky Atlantic/Canal+, January 2017 (USA).
The Young Pope is simultaneously confounding and haunting. What happens when the first-ever American pope is elected? And when this pope, who — as the…
