TV got better but mostly on cable. A common theme for both lists show that non network programs made up almost all of my best of list and the vice versa here. Why does network TV suck so bad? Nine of ten below are all on free TV, with only the top slot lost to a streaming site in what can only be described as one of the worst shows I have EVER watched. Let's see what else crashed and burned this year.
10)Valor- This CW show is a jingoistic nightmare best suited for some unknown cable channel you accidentally find rather than a major network. The one episode I suffered through had interchangeable characters, no plot to speak of and I think I actually dozed off near the end I was so bored. This will not make it till next season even being on CW.
9)Emerald City- Scraping the bottom of the fantasy barrel after Once Upon a Time and Grimm, both of which are either long gone or barely hanging on, this modern take on the Wizard of Oz didn't register at all with audiences and was cancelled quick. It was not missed by anyone.
8)Young Sheldon- I will be perfectly honest: I don't get this show at all. It is NOT funny, the main character is really annoying and it is nothing like the show it is spun off of. Going from a multi camera, stage version to a single camera, film version is jarring. It is a far cry from Big Bang Theory, one of my favorite sitcoms of all times. I actually stopped watching The Big Bang after the first episode and had to play catch up later because I thought it was way too smart for Idiot America, I was wrong. This show sounded awful from the get go and it was. But much like I couldn't believe it's parent show was a hit, I am doubly surprised that this unfunny mess is too.
7)24:Legacy- Here's a bad idea: Let's redo 24 without Jack Bauer. Audiences will love that. They didn't and the series was cancelled after it's thankfully limited run. Maybe the lead can go back to being Heath on the Walking Dead now so we can find out what happened to him.
6)Wisdom of the Crowd- This was a bad idea even before Jeremy Piven was accused of sexual misconduct by five women. A guy uses social media to solve crimes. Yawn. Audiences gave it a shot in the beginning but week to week the ratings tumbled and then flatlined when the star was suddenly toxic. To be fair, I have heard lots of horror stories about Piven for years but nothing of a sexual mature. He was just a dick. I do wonder if some of these stories against powerful people are because they were an asshole. Jeffrey Tambor may be guilty of the same. God help us if that is true.
5)Kevin Probably Saves the World- I've liked Jason Ritter ever since the failed TV show The Class which gave us such stars as Jon Bernthal, Lizzie Caplain and Jessie Tyler Ferguson. That show was way funnier than it should have been but never caught on. While the other three have all gone to great success, Ritter has struggled with some piss poor shows and others that just didn't do as well as one would hope. This was not going to be his salvation with a down on his luck guy picked by God to save the world. This will not be renewed for next season if ratings are any indication.
4)Megyn Kelly- This was a 12 million dollar mistake as NBC tried to transplant a Fox News host whose reporting was terrible at best and achieved the exact results we all knew would happen: failure. Her ratings on her nightly show were terrible from minute one and that carried on to her morning show. It was so bad her presence was dragging down subsequent hours as people turned to Good Morning America instead. Just like Jimmy Fallon's non political attitude dropped the Tonight Show to second for the first time ever. Kelly's politcal baggage sunk her as well. They should seriously think about buying out her contract and getting her the hell of their network.
3)Me, Myself and I- No comedy I watched this year was this unfunny. I struggled to get through one episode even though Bobby Moynihan and John Laroquette, two of favorite funny actors ever, were in it and NOT good at all. Playing three versions of yourself is hard, but is impossible to ignore the fact that none of the three looked like each other. Hell Laroquette is like a foot taller than Moynihan. What he do grow bigger in middle age? This was the first to get cancelled outright and for good cause. It was terrible.
2)Powerless- I stand corrected. This was the worst comedy of the year. Again, this had comic gold with people like Ron Funches, Alan Tudyk and Abed from Community in it and about people who clean up after a super hero battles goes wrong. What they forgot to do was make anyone interesting or even memorable with no backstory to anyone or even anything resembling development. Everyone who worked at the office setting was so interchangeable that I couldn't even tell you who was who. This was mercifully cancelled quick.
1)Star Trek: Discovery- This is what I discovered about the one episode I got to watch: I would rather watch all episodes of Enterprise on an endless loop than sit through one more minute of this super crappy TV show. THIS IS NOT STAR TREK! Star Trek is about hope and redemption and this latest series seems more Star Wars than not. It has to do with betrayal and dystopias and is so dark and gloomy it looks like it was lit by the same ass that worked on Nemesis, the worst Star Trek movie ever. The Klingons looks stupid, the were so many lens flares I thought my cataracts had returned and the acting was sub par. The dumbest and biggest mistake was making everything look so much more technologically advanced than they should as it takes place before the time of Kirk. This is why prequels never work in sci-fi as the special effects are getting better and better while in this time continuity they shouldn't be and it is jarring. I am not paying to watch a show I hated. I have no idea why anyone else would.
Runner ups- ABP, SWAT, Ten Days in the Valley, Fox News, You the Jury, American Idol: the return, Man With a Plan, Brave, Candy Crush, Scream Queens, Designated Survivor, Training Day.
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