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 Sunday. We begin today by looking into the television reviews offered by Matt Lynn Digital in 2023.
With the best rating of 4.75-stars on a scale of 1-to-5 given to just one show this year, the leader in our viewing pleasure in 2023 was season four of the television series Justified (2010-2015). Multiple storylines contributed to a strong season, with the relationship between Arlo and Rayland Givens holding particular relevance to the larger series narrative.
Three shows earned 4.5 stars for us in 2023, with the inaugural season of Lucky Hank (2023- ) topping the bill. Network shows that captured our attention included the opening season of Alaska Daily (2022- ) and the first season of the reboot of Quantum Leap (2022- ).
The fifth season of the show Bosch (2014-2021) along with the second season of the reimagined Perry Mason (2020- ) earned 4.25-stars in rounding out the best television that we viewed in 2023. Both shows get into season long explorations of individual cases. Granting an edge to Bosch might simply be a matter of being further into the series at the current time.
El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie (2019) offered us a 3.75-star movie rating as a postscript to the Breaking Bad (2008-2013) series as reviewed by Matt Lynn Digital in 2022. Learning what became of the Jesse Pinkman character was an interesting and needed piece of viewing for the series.
Science Fiction and affairs of state proved to be in play for 2023 as the opening season of The Ark (2023- ) along with season three and season four of Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan (2018-2023) earned 3.5-star ratings for us. The third season of the Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan proved the stronger season of the pair for us, though neither could supplant the intriguing concept of The Ark that will have us coming back for another season.
Season one of The Consultant (2023- ) earned a 3.25-star rating as our lowest rated show for the year. The concept of the show brings out the strong sense of horror intended with source material that itself struggled, in my opinion. The performance of Christoph Waltz, as strong as it was, simply was not strong enough in our opinion to recommend that you watch this series.
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Matt – Thursday, December 28, 2023
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