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My Favorite Shows

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Phil Chu
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Phil Chu
Making software since the 80s

I recently listed my favorite shows from the past year

  • The Good Place
  • Dead to Me
  • Killing Eve
  • The Mandalorian
  • Russian Doll
  • Stranger Things
  • The Handmaid’s Tale
  • Veronica Mars
  • Barry
  • Watchmen

Only afterwards did I realize most of these shows featured female leads, and in fact most of them had women as their main protagonists. This was true of some of my past favorite shows but probably not most, and the pickings were slimmer. If I had to pick five off the top of my head, it’d be Buffy, Sarah Connor Chronicles, BSG, Deadwood, Breaking Bad, and that’s maybe two out of five (I always thought The Sarah Connor Chronicles was more about Sarah Connor than John Connor).

So, this is one of the few positive trends going into the new decade.