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Best of 2024: TV series
DENNIS BROE picks his highlights
(L) Toby Jones as Alan Bates in Mr Bates Vs The Post Office; (R) Andre Holland as Huey Newton in The Big Cigar
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The Bard commutes to work for the first time in 45 years
GORDON PARSONS is riveted by a translation of Shakespeare’s tragedy into joyous comedy set in a southern black homestead
GEORGE FOGARTY relishes the music of black British artists that channels Carribbean, Latin and club sounds, along with contemporary west African radicalism
CHRIS SEARLE hears the ordeal of the Palestinian people in the improvised musicianship of a UK jazz trio
DAVID RENTON is puzzled by an ambitious attempt to look back on world culture from the future without engaging with or understanding it
THE year was highlighted by massive cutbacks in production allocations, with Netflix, whose series are of dubious quality, the only streamer to keep up. The attack on writers continues and there is also a general ideological trend toward conformity (Russian, Chinese, Syrian and Iranian bad guys abound) that saps creativity and complexity.
Nevertheless, spanning the globe, there were enough series of interest to compile a list of the best culled from over 120 series watched this year.
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