![]() Created by Kathleen Jordan, this critically-beloved sleeper hit is the story of wealthy 16-year-old twin sisters Blair and Sterling (Anjelica Bette Fellini and Maddie Phillips) who wind up apprenticing for a gruff bounty hunter (Kadeem Hardison). It is a crime, the most heinous crime, that Netflix has chosen to cancel the delightful, dizzying, and incredibly sincere series Teenage Bounty Hunters after just one season. ![]() Teenage Bounty Hunters, Season 1 (Netflix) Supernatural shows are included on a case-by-case basis, depending on how metaphorical the supernatural stuff is and whether or not there the story features some regular crimes, too.Īs with all of our best-of-year content, this list is not ranked.Īll of these shows are available to stream, and we’ve included those details with each listing so you can get to watching right away. ![]() ![]() And, as usual, “crime” is defined rather broadly, to include all illegal activity from theft, to murder, to cons, to gangster shenanigans, to on-the-lam stories. We include miniseries alongside regular ones, and international as well as domestic programs. We’re featuring brand-new shows alongside long-running shows with new seasons (though we’ll specify among them). Here are the rules for our selections: all series considered all had to have seasons that aired in 2020 in the US. ![]() We’ve assembled our picks for the best crime and mystery television shows of 2020, a list we weren’t even actually going to do in the first place (it’s mid-January, hello there) but decided to do anyway because we’re all still stuck indoors and therefore, we all still need things to watch. This year, we watched strange-community-fostering shows like Tiger King, and streaming-service-Hail-Marys like the Hamilton drop, and considered hotly-debated twists, like a certain cameo in a certain episode of The Mandalorian. There were successful literary adaptations like Normal People, filmed zoom-readings of beloved pilots like The Nanny, outrageous and overhyped melodramas like The Undoing, and of course, the four-day live nailbiter that was the 2020 American presidential election. But, yes, in 2020, television may have felt more soothing to many of us, for breaking the pervasive monotony or calming our nerves or distracting us. I don’t know, though, if this is especially different from how television normally functions for many of us we have always looked forward to episodes, counted down until premieres, and we certainly have been binge-watching whole-series for years. Writer Will Smith ( Veep) and director James Hawes ( Penny Dreadful) do a great job convincing us this is probably what the intelligence business is really like, while providing an immensely entertaining plot for this rabble to solve.Because we were all stuck inside for most of last year, it feels easy to suggest that television took on new meaning for us-most simply, as something to actually do (inside). At one point during a riveting tête-à-tête with Scott Thomas’ chilly supremo, Taverner, he explains that while his team may be a bunch of fucking losers, they are, at least, his bunch of fucking losers. And yet… there are hints that deep down, Lamb kind of, almost, a bit, does care. You can almost smell the musty odour emanating from his manky old suit, as he rules his crumbling empire with gleeful hostility, and tries to stop any of them from actually doing any proper espionage work. His performance here is a tour de force of wheezily profane indifference. It’s a delightful and cunning casting coup that Lamb is played by the great Gary Oldman, over a decade on from his beautifully modulated, Oscar-nominated version of Smiley in the superb 2011 film of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. ![]()
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