The best TV shows of 2022

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4.6 • 924 Ratings

🗓️ 23 December 2022

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Now that it's officially winter, there's no better time to catch up on the best TV series of the year. The New Yorker’s Inkoo Kang is back to wrap up the best in television of 2022, including a comedy special, a couple of genre-blurring memoirs and a new take on an old trope. You can find her full list at our website: https://tinyurl.com/59yxzdfa

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0:00.0	I'm Natalie Moore. I fell in love with soap operas when I was just five years old, and I still
0:06.1	watch them. Their television's longest scripted series and have zero reruns. Now let me tell you,
0:12.7	soap operas aren't just some silly art form. They are significant. In this season of making,
0:18.0	Stories Without End from WB EZ Chicago.
0:25.7	Join me as I share how the genre began, their social impact, and why these stories endure.
0:28.3	Listen, wherever you get your podcast.
0:55.8	From WBEZ Chicago, this is Nerdette. I'm Greta Johnson. We did it. We made it to another weekend. I hope you have some time off coming in the next couple of weeks. And what better way to fill that time than with some of the best TV shows of the year? Here to share her favorite five shows of the year is Ingu Kang, TV critic at The New Yorker. Ingu, welcome back. Hi, happy to be back.
1:01.8	Yay. So you brought your top five shows of the year in no particular order, to be clear. I would love to know how you decide. Like, some of these are things that are, we're definitely on my radar.
1:06.3	Others, not so much. So I'm excited to chat with you about them. I mostly really just went off on what our shows
1:12.2	that people are not yet sick of hearing about because I love the white lotus, just like everyone else.
1:17.3	I too love, like, redacted happening to redacted. But I also at the same time know that no one
1:24.4	wants to hear about the white lettuce anymore probably. So I brought
1:28.7	five shows that honestly really kind of made me feel like something new or something special
1:36.1	or something tingly in a genre that I was kind of sick of. Like the semi-autobiographical genre,
1:43.3	the medical genre, the serial killer drama.
1:47.6	Like, I could not believe that there was a serial killer drama in the year 2022 that I actually
1:52.9	enjoyed.
1:54.3	And so I was like, if you are able to make this, like, withered old heart inside me like actually pump for once like you're in amazing
2:07.4	okay so let's start with mo on netflix speaking of kind of a memory show this one is loosely
2:14.1	based on creator and star moh amher's life as a Palestinian immigrant in Houston.
2:18.6	I've never been to Palestine.
2:20.7	I don't have citizenship there.
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