The Kristian Harloff Show - TOP 10 BEST TV SHOWS OF 2022!

Episode Date: December 31, 2022

We had a ton of great television series hit in 2022. A lot of great dramas, sci fi, fantasy and more. What were the absolute best of the year? Kristian Harloff gives his full list of the Top ten best TV shows. What do you think? Agree or Disagree? #gameofthrones #starwars #tv #show OUR MERCH STORE IS LIVE: https://www.teepublic.com/stores/the-big-thing-kh-channel?ref_id=27393 AMAZON WISHLIST: https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/1KPH42T0TP0PG?ref=cm_sw_em_r_un_un_djbxgIW5ZQMMg PATREON: http://www.patreon.com/thebigthingshow SCHMOEDOWN ARCHIVE CHANNEL: https://www.youtube.com/c/TheMovieTriviaSchmoedownArchives Ask Kristian questions for next time! https://facebook.com/harloff Become a Patreon of the Schmoedown: http://patreon.com/schmoedown OTHER GREAT CONTENT: REVIEWS https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSJdE28YyUT368qY7sfE0nKE4c04CqGvu TV REVIEWS https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSJdE28YyUT1LU-t2Z9AD5UJDiWW4pS_E STAR WARS SHOW https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSJdE28YyUT0XmfpbblkF9PY7uO2qhbN6 THE BIG THING PODCAST https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSJdE28YyUT3KAwbzDsv6mdR-gwUiydQg FOLLOW KRISTIAN + FIND HIM ON CAMEO https://cameo.com/kristianharloff https://twitter.com/kristianharloff https://facebook.com/harloff https://instagram.com/kristianharloff Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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help us out. Okay. So I did a top 10. Well, first of all, did the best movies list with John Roker and Dan Merle. We did the best of movies and TV in a full, like, two-hour spectacular. And then I did my best movie. which came out earlier today, the best movies, the top 10 movies of 2022. So I'm going to do my

top 10 TV shows of 2022. Now, this is all the stuff that I enjoy, all the stuff that I like. And I know there's some stuff that I missed that I didn't see it. I know everybody tells me that I would love Better Call Saul. Breaking Bad is one of my favorite shows of all time. I just have not had a chance to get into it yet. I will. Trust me, I will. I really want to see it. And I hear just nothing but amazing things about it. So it's not going to be on my list because I haven't seen it. But understand that I want to see it. Anyway, so here is the top 10 best TV shows of 2022, in my humble opinion. All right.

Coming in at number 10, it's going to be the old man. This stars Jeff Bridges. It is directed by John Watts, the first two episodes. And it had like a, if Jack Bauer was, you know, in his late 70s, what would he be up to or mid-70s, whatever, what would he be up to and how would it all played out? And it kind of reminds me of this. And I think Jack Bauer sometimes had too many episodes, but I get it, 24.

This had the problem, the reason why, from what I believe and what I've read, it's only like seven episodes and it ends abruptly. And that's because during filming, they had found out about Jeff Gridge's, his health problems. And I think since he is getting better, I believe so, I don't want to speak at a turn here, but this is everything that I have read. And it just plays. Amy Brennaman is also in this. She has a, I thought at first a similar role to what she had in heat.

And it is for like a split second, but it kind of turns it on its head a little bit. But it is violent. It is well written. It is well acted. John Lithgow, obviously, really, really good. Shoot. A woman who plays Jeff Bridges' daughter,

who is in Arrested Development is also a big standout. in the show also. But it's, had it had more episodes, it probably would rose higher because I was raving about it, but it just feels like it wasn't a completed show. It was, and for those reasons that I told you, like it was going somewhere in the adventure and by the time it was like, whoa, where are we going? What's happening? What's happening?

And hearing that news, it made a lot more sense. It's also why I'm way, way more forgiving on it because it's like, well, what could they have done? I understand it's, you can find that on Hulu and FX and it's really a great show. So for me, again, old man coming in at number 10. So then we throw to number nine, and that's going to be Tulsa King. I'm going to another old crafty old vet coming back and doing his craft again, and that's Stallone and the Tulsa King.

Now, when they announced Samaritan in that movie coming out on Amazon, that film, I was like, oh, it's going to be a good one. And it was all right. It wasn't great. But I loved seeing Stallone doing some. different type of things, and it was fine, Samaritan. But Tulsa gang, him working with Sheridan, holy crap. This is the perfect, again, movie stars selling TV shows.

This is the perfect role for Stallone. There are only a couple of gripes I have with this show. Sometimes, because it can get really serious, which is I love. And there's some stuff that sometimes it feels like the Sopranos. And sometimes, you know, it feels like a, it feels like a good balance, get shorty. but there's a couple times, not too many, not too many, but there's a few times, there's like this big fight that happens at one point

with like baseball bats, and it just doesn't feel like it's in the same show. It feels almost like cartooning, and I don't really feel like anybody's really getting hurt or could get hurt from that, but then there's other scenes where you're like, whoa, this is Stallone is at his best. I think we could see a Stallone Emmy nomination for this role.

He's so good in it as this cap, well, he was Capo in the mob in New York, and he didn't rat on anybody. He spent a lot of time in the clink, and he gets out, and he's coming back to get some, you know, to get some scraps. He wants, he wants a piece, not ratting. And then go, we're going to give me a piece. You're going to take over Tulsa. He's like, Tulsa, what is it, and hence Tulsa King? And there's a lot that goes down in the show. I'm a big fan of it. And also, Tyler Sheridan, is just, I call Andrew Fried, my buddy Midas, So is so is Tyler Sheridan.

Unbelievable. All right. So coming in number eight is Cobur Kai season five. Five seasons, five seasons of Cobur Kai. And if you're brand new to the channel, maybe you don't know, but I love this show. I've loved this show since the beginning, since it debuted.

I've had an opportunity to talk to the cast. I've had an opportunity to talk to the creators. This show just does it for me, man. And I'll be completely honest. I didn't know what to expect going into season five because how long can they go? Well, the question is they can definitely go five seasons because it was intriguing. It was great. And what they also did, which was so tremendous,

was what they did with the character of Terry Silver, played by the great Thomasine Griffith, made a triumphant return to this role. And I really, really, really thought that they developed it well. It started off, as I said, I'm like, okay, maybe we're going to get into a lot of familiar things we've seen, and then they just turned it on its head. And what they're able to do with old school characters, new characters, it's just a great feeling overall.

And I laughed. And this is what's great about the show. It can be a comedy at times. It can be a drama at times. I think Ralph Macho does some great stuff in this one. As well, he does. He always does great stuff. But I think he's, you can see what great actor he is,

and how great an actor he's always been. He's leaned on more to show a lot of those dramatic skills in this season. And a lot of the kids, whether it's Miguel, Sam, Robbie, they all shine consistently and their arcs don't stay in the same place that they did in the previous seasons. They evolve and that's why I continue to like this show and waiting for that season six announcement. When's it coming out, man? When's it coming out? All right.

So that was number eight, Cobra Kai, season five. Number seven, a show that I did if before I had seen this movie, I don't know if I ever would have cared about the show. I'm talking about the suicide squad and I'm talking about Peacemaker. Peacemaker, I was interested to see the show once I saw The Suicide Squad because I've talked about it before that I never really, I was never really super on board with John Cena. I think he's a tremendous talent as far as his drive and everything that he's accomplished. He has earned and he's put in so much hard work. He's gone off that mantra in general all of his life.

And from everything I hear, he's just a genuine human being. You root for people like that, but I was just never a massive fan. but cross that out now because I am a massive fan, especially for what he's done in both. The Suicide Squad, the character of Peacemaker, you're not really supposed to like him all the way through. So when they announced a TV show, I'm like, well, that's going to be interesting how they pull that off.

How are you going to make you like this guy right away? They make you like him right away. And they highlight, James Gunn highlights John's sense of humor, what he's able to do physically, and the crew in general, my standout entirely of the show is Freddie Stroma. Had an opportunity to interview Freddie Stroma, talked to him about the show, but he was the standout to me because I didn't know as vigilante.

I didn't know anything about him. The whole crew is spectacular. It's going to be a bummer because I don't think that this show is going to continue because everything happening at D.C. And I, unfortunately, because of all the moves that were made, think that you can't continue it without a severe amount of blowback. Anyway. I love this show.

I thought it was quirky. There was another show. People were like, well, wait a minute. If you haven't seen that show and you love this show, wait to see that show. I'll talk about that in just a moment. But loved Peacemaker and that's why it's so high. Well, number seven. That's why I made the top ten.

And number six is one that, as I mentioned in my movies, I don't think there's going to be on a lot of people's list at all. What I have noticed is that when I recommended it, people have been checking out. And I haven't got a lot of, I didn't really like that. that man. I didn't think you were wrong. I've got a lot of you were right. And that's the offer. And the offer is about the making of the gone father. Now, there's a lot of, I'm not the big, everything needs to be historically accurate all the time. It's like, does it work for the show?

And if there's some things that are historically accurate, great. If not, just as good. Is it a good show? And it is a good show. Miles Teller, Juno Temple, Dan Fogler, Matthew Good is so good at Robert Evans. I mean, so everybody is good in this show, but it's just the story of how the Godfather was made and the things that had to happen and the some of the real things that happened inside of it and the struggle that it took to make the movie, the struggle with the fact that a lot of Italian Americans

did not want this movie made at all because of the way that they believed it was going to be depicted how Francis Ford Coppola came about to make it, Ameriapuso, ranked by Patrick Gallo, by the way. I loved this show. I thought it was such an underrated show. Not enough people who are talking about this show. Like, frickin McCouga, three months later,

says, oh, how come nobody told me about the offer? I'm like, well, clearly you muted my tweets. Because otherwise, how could you not see that I was raving about this show for months? So it is a phenomenal, phenomenal show. And I think everybody should check it out. So that's number six. Number five, I just mentioned the show that people said, I should check out if I loved Peacemaker, and that's the Boys.

The Boys Season 3. Now, this was a tougher one for me to rank because I watched the boys season one, two, and three, like in unison within the course of however long it took me. I don't know, a month or so, to watch the whole thing. And I had been wanting to watch it for a long time. I had started an episode years ago when the first season came out and I loved it, but I was like, I got to get back to it, never did, finally did. And watch season one and just fell in love with it.

I loved season two. A lot of people didn't love season two. and then people start raving about three. And I thought three was really, really good, really good. And when you watch a show like this in like, you know, as really one long season as opposed to three seasons, because a lot of people, if you were watching the show from the beginning, you watched week to week, and then you waited in between,

as I am now waiting for season four. But I didn't have to wait for any seasons, and I watched it. So it all played into like one big season. But I thought the boy season three was very energetic. It was a great arc to what they had done so far. Great follow-up to what they did in season two. There's some really bizarre stuff. I thought Jensen Eccles was awesome as Soldier Boy.

And then, you know, Anthony Star, to me, is continued. There's so many great performances, Carl Urban, Quaid, so many people that are during this show. Mother's Milk, everybody, there's so many people that are just so great in this show. But to me, Anthony Starr is the one continuously that I think, is how. Homelander that just stands out as a megastar, and I hope that he does more, and I'm surprised that he hasn't done more, at least been announced to do more, whether it is something in a big IP, whether it is a DC movie, Star Wars movie, Marvel movie, something else entirely, his own Netflix movie, I don't know how much he's tied into it, but this show, the satire that it is,

how graphic it can be, how clever it is, how funny it is, love the boys, and certainly love the boys season three. Now, number four, I would have never, in a million years imagined that this would rank higher than any of those other shows because I saw some a little bit of it said, I don't know, I'll get back to it eventually. And then I watched the first 15 minutes and said, I don't know, this is not for me. And that's Severance. Boy, was this show for me. This show was incredible.

Ben Stillard does a great job in only producing this show, directing a handful of episodes. Adam Scott is the lead of the show, and it is just, it's science fiction, but it has a lost feel to it. Patricia Arquette is also just dynamic. Her dynamic with Adam Scott is fantastic. You have got, I think I mentioned Christopher Walken, Torturo. Again, there's so many different performances, but it's the journey that it takes you. And this is why I love some of these shows,

so much as streaming shows, as you compare them, and why I think TV has gotten so much better, because they don't have to push to 22 episodes the way that network television used to have to do and in order to really to get the sponsors, to do all that, to pay for it all, and they had to like, and the writers just had to stretch it out. And you can make seven episodes, eight episodes, nine episodes, whatever it was.

It's going to take us nine hours to tell this full story. It's going to take us six episodes to tell this whole story. Whatever it might be you have that ability in streaming. And I think that's why Severance really delivers because it tells such a great story. And Roxy Stryor had been recommended in this show forever. and I finally watched, and so was Mark Ellis, but like she had said, this season finale is just going to keep you on your toes. And she was 100% correct. The season finale was so good.

I was just sitting there on the edge of my couch going, oh, you understand what you had to end, but why did you have to end? And it was one of those moments that got me and got me and got me. The music is really well done. And it's just this adventure of how they're going to do it. And then eventually, like, how do they go from the end to season two? How do you do that? So it was a great idea that they really executed well. So I'm very excited for season two, and that's my number four is severance.

So then number three, what's number three then? Stranger Things, Season 4. Now, both of those parts, the whole entire series came out this year, and they had released them all. And I still think that the Netflix, you know, binge model now is so outdated. And I think Stranger Things could have really benefited from week to week. even more so because it was such a fantastic season. Such a fantastic season. Guys know the cast and they have the new character of Vecna,

which I think has just become one of the biggest sci-fi villains in a long time and in the way that they did it and the way that it kind of played. And I like the idea that the second half was essentially a two and a half hour movie. You could take breaks. You could watch it all the way through. It continued over and what I really liked about it was that the Duffer Brothers had said This is going to be more horror-based than in the past, where the first season was very much like kind of 80s, Goonies feel.

This is more horror-based nightmare and Elm Street type, and it's exactly what it was. But it's also with the characters. I like the idea, and I talked about this on the Big Thing episode with Dan Merle and Rocha. I like that they spread the characters out. And Dan made a good point that they had done this before in other seasons of the show, but I like that they spread the characters out,

and then they gave them the Empire Strikes Back moment to when they finally kind of came back and enroll together again. But there's the character of Eddie just stood out. There's so many great standouts and so many great moments. And I think to me, the fourth season, just by a little, just by a little, surpasses the first season just by a little. I know not everybody's going to agree with that, but I just by a little. And then if you told me tomorrow that I was going to say that the first season surpasses

the fourth just by a little, same. I think that the third season is probably second best, then the second season, but this season was just so good to kind of reinvented and then get us into a place where we finally can end it in one big season. I hope Netflix rethinks it. I hope that Netflix says, let's do week to week. I think this show will have even more of an impact. I don't think they'll do it, but I think they should try it.

So for me, that's why it lands at number three. Now, number two, that's going to be Andor. Andor was a series, as you know, If you've been following me, I have really, really thought that Star Wars has got something special with Andor. Now, this was a series that I did not know what to expect. When it was announced years ago, I said, what are they going to do with Cassie and Andor? I said the one thing that they really could do that I hope that they do to make it somewhat interesting is explore both the characters inside of the rebellion and the empire. And like they do in the novels, that would be interesting.

And that's exactly what they're doing. And Tony Gilroy is so brilliant. and Tony Gilroy is so well versed in detail. And I had the opportunity to have Diego Luna in studio, and we had a long conversation about it, and he said just that, the detail that Tony Gilroy has, the idea of how much time it takes, the real location, the arcs, the 1-2-3 punch of having those arcs throughout it,

the great performances from Diego Luna, Adria Ajona, Skell and Scarsguard, so many, so many people. Fiona Shaw, Andy Circus, and the list goes on and on and on and on. But now I've mentioned this also, do I do think that it's the best written Star Wars show since Empire Strikes Back. There's no doubt of, excuse me, Star Wars material since Empire Strikes Back. And I'm still a Mandalorian guy because Mandalorian, to me, scratches all of the big Star Wars itches. But this scratches a big Star Wars itch. And that's inside of that rebellion, empire, all of it, how it plays, how it all got to the place where we know it today

and how it all began the spark of the rebellion, if you will. So Diego Luna, rightfully so, nominated for a few different awards. And I'm so excited that this show is getting recognition. What's so funny is when people are, all the ratings aren't that good. They started out slow. You forget how streaming works. It's not movies. When a movie bombs in the theater or a movie doesn't do well in the theater,

and it starts to be more stuff starts coming out. When you have a show that's critically acclaimed, critically acclaimed, and you're already subscribed to the service. I can't even tell you how many people are keep hearing. Andrew is that good? All right, I go watch it. Holy crap, it was really good. I can't even count how many times people have said that.

I think of Doreena, who, was convinced to say, really, the Star Wars doesn't have been a great, watch it. All right, I go back and check it and check it out. My friend, my friend back home, who was like, is Indoor really that good? Checks it out, watch it. That was not too long ago. So be careful before you just say, you know, you got, you got, the streaming takes, streaming takes a bit.

And especially after award nominations and things like that, where do you think a lot of the movies that didn't do very well eventually found voices for when they were on cable? and this is and this is it's already there. All right. So number one, House of the Dragon. It's the best show I've seen on television in a very long time. You talk about investment. You talk about detail.

Talk about just Matt Smith was really the only actor that I knew going into it. And I've always thought I've liked him. I think he is just an extraordinary talent. What he's able to do is Damon is, um, it is just it's, they could have went a particular way with him, he's more complex than just your standard Game of Thrones character. Emma Darcy, who I didn't know a lot about just both Emma Darcy and Millie Adcock playing Winera and, you know, Patty Considine, again, the list goes on and on.

There's so many great characters, but I was, and I loved the idea that this particular show focused in on just this house and the politics surrounding the house of the dragon. The Game of Thrones, no complaints. I like the series more than I think most, the entire series. But there's a lot of characters and a lot of things going on. And sometimes you can visit a full episode or two episodes and not even get to the people of a story that they set up a while ago. And you're like, okay, what's happened there?

Let's go. Let's go. this is that continuous thread. And sometimes the time jumps might have been a lot for a lot of people, but I like that I enjoyed it. I really, I mean, I was on the edge of my seat for this show. Weekend, week in, week out, could not get enough of it. It was so bummed when it ended.

It was one of those things where I did a reaction for it, and I've never done a trailer reaction or an episode reaction where I've been so, I'm not that guy, right? Like there are a lot of people out there just like jumping out of this. And I'm not saying it's not genuine or not. I'm just not that guy. that's jumping out of their seats. Like, no, no, no.

This particular episode, I was slamming on my knee. I was holding my head. I was going, it was, it was insane because that's what that show did to me. It really had a grip on me, and I loved it. So, hey, I'm in a different outfit again. Okay, so here is the list. That's my list.

That's the overall list. And let me break it down once again. 10. The old man. That's on FX. Hulu. 9. Tulsa King.

That is on Paramount Plus. 8. Cobur Kai, find that on Netflix. 7. Peacemaker, HBO Max. 6. The Offer, Power Mount Plus. 5. The Boys Season 3, Amazon. 4. Severance, Apple TV. 3. Stranger Things, Season 4, Netflix. 2, and or on Disney Plus.

And number 1, House of the Dragon on HBO Max. Few that I, 1923 probably could have been there. And to be honest, it was in my original list. shifted some stuff around. It's only two episodes. I think if had it been more episodes, probably would be in there, such a great show. Moon Night, Ms. Marvel, Pam and Tommy, the Sandman, Wednesday. Those are just a few that I didn't get to that I enjoyed this year. So what about you? What's your list? As I mentioned in the beginning of the video in this outfit, that when you comment, it helps tremendously. It helps engagement. It helps people find the channel. So please comment. Tell me

your list. I want to know exactly what you thought. And if there's some shows that I missed, I know Better Call Saul's going to be on there. I get it. So what should I watch? What did I miss? I know 1890 is one that I've been recommended. Because I love dark so much. I'll probably get into that as well.

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