Looking back on a wildly eclectic year of debuts, fromQueer EyetoSharp Objects.

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In strikingly different ways, the best new shows of the past year each offered fresh perspective.

ButSuccessionproved that assumption wrong.

Never change, ya jerk.

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The Netflix reboot of the Bravo series could very easily have been a wildly outmoded retread.

Or, for that matter, that youll watch in 2019.

Thats because it was directed bySam Esmail, the creator ofMr.

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(Or sometimes an hour-plus, especially if youre watching Netflix.)

It is weird and surprising in the best way.

But not enough people talk about how funny this show is.

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Still: What a season of television it was.

It trafficked in darkness, for sure.

But few shows during the past 12 months were more transfixing than this mesmerizing, disturbing drama.

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