It’s the end of the year, and you know what that means: lists! Here is a list of my personal top ten for the best TV shows of the year. And man it was so hard to choose just ten; this was such a great, no fantastic, year for TV, probably the best in the last couple of years. So let’s get started from 10 to 1.
The Premise: Each episode begins with “You are being watched. The government has a secret system, a machine that spies on you every hour of every day.” And that’s the good news. The premise of the series is essentially two men and a machine. The machine, designed by Mr. Finch, conducts elaborate and intrusive electronic monitoring of millions of people in order to protect the United States from terrorist attack. And it works.
