Matt Lynn Digital is taking this opportunity of the year end to look back at the last year in book reviews, movie reviews, music reviews and television reviews. We will look at these individual categories, one per day through Saturday. We begin today by looking into the television reviews offered by Matt Lynn Digital in 2022.
With the top ratings of 4.75-stars on a scale of 1-to-5, the leaders included the television series Breaking Bad (2008-2013) and season three of the television series Bosch (2014-2021). Breaking Bad gets into the story of how underpaid and demoralized chemistry teacher turns genius science skills into a psychopathic criminal enterprise. The third season of Bosch focuses on the combative, anti-authoritarian tendencies of the central character in fighting crime, his past and those around him to fight legitimate injustice in the form of potential serial killers and storylines that reach into previous and future seasons.
Fitting into the next slot of television with ratings of 4.5-stars on a scale of 1-to-5 include seasons one, two and four of the television series Bosch (2014-2021). These three seasons introduce and continue the ongoing story of the central policeman to the full series, coupled with the changing interpersonal dynamics among his fellow policemen. The stories of the other law enforcement service get personal, political and legal probing the lives of criminals, lawyers, reporters, the general public and foreign nationals. Add members of the general public that find the presence and track record of law enforcement complicated, and you begin to get some of the scope of this series.
A documentary named George Carlin’s American Dream (2022) premiered as part of a two-night presentation in May that remembered the life and times of comedian George Carlin. The presentation gave an intimate overview of the man’s career in addition to his influences on people in and out of show business, including his family and himself. Many life lessons about being true to yourself were revealed in this documentary. I gave the experience 4.25-stars on a scale of 1-to-5.
The documentaries Abraham Lincoln (2022) and Benjamin Franklin (2022) premiered in February and April, respectively. Both explored significant elements of the men’s upbringing and the force of will that shaped the way they would behave in public life. The explorations of Abraham Lincoln and Benjamin Franklin earned 4-stars on a scale of 1-to-5 ratings from Matt Lynn Digital.
The documentary Theodore Roosevelt (2022) premiered in May of this year while the imagined movie A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (2019) made its debut three years ago. The life and times of Theodore Roosevelt were told in a manner consistent with the manner of the documentary on Lincoln referenced above. The movie offered Fred Rogers‘ sensibilities through a biographical drama presented in a fashion similar to an episode of the television series Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood (1968-2001).
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Matt – Wednesday, December 28, 2022
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