by Sally Lewis

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.

DENNIS BROE situates the new Netflix series House of Guinness within a genre that is dazzled by the perverse spectacle of capitalist domination

DENNIS BROE enjoys the political edge of a series that unmasks British imperialism, resonates with the present and has been buried by Disney

