Hope for the best.

Expect the words.

Some bring champagne, some die of furs.

The way of knowing which way it's going.

Hope for the best expect the worst. Welcome to the Commentary Magazine Daily Podcast.

Today is Thursday, December 28th, 2023.

I am John Poth Hoare.

The editor of Commentary magazine.

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at midnight and you will help us do what we're doing here for another year and we would be very grateful and by we I mean executive editor

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I John

Senior editor Seth Mandel. Hi Seth Seth Hi, Washington commentary columnist Matthew Cottonetti. Hi Matt.

Hi John. So here we are with one of our end of year shows.

We did books, we did movies, and now we are going to do television, any kind of television, streaming television, network television,

and God knows what on earth you might choose on network television except for the Golden Bachelor, which I didn't watch.

So we just want to talk about what we liked in this year, what was the most meaningful experience or whatever of this year and I think I will turn first to

Christine Rosen to tell us what show she or shows she would like to highlight.

Well, I was going to choose Last of Us, you know, with Pedro Pascal,

the sort of apocalyptic fungus virus, zombie-ish, weird series that I really did enjoy very much the season of,

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