At base, I object to any system that makes me feel like a store clerk in “High Fidelity.” Those guys are not my guys. I mean, I don’t follow basketball statistics. I watch the Oscars for the starlet meltdowns and I don’t expect the “best movie” to be the best movie. I black out when I try to calculate the tip. Please don’t make me tell you the best television show of the year.
Although the answer is obviously “Breaking Bad.”
Emily Nussbaum rants against the top ten list. I’m a lover of top-ten lists, it’s usually my favorite thing about the Internet - a month long retrospective into why the past year was awesome. A well cultivated top-ten list helps frame the zeitgeist of the year, and helps uncover great music, tv, and movies you might have missed. For the critic, I can imagine it to be a tiresome effort to weed through all the competing lists, but to the reader, it’s a year-end compilation that helps make sure you didn’t miss something beautiful or fantastic.
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Source: newyorker.com
