Illustration: Sean McCabeIt wasn’t a regular year, this 2023.
Writers were on strike; actors were on strike.
Martha the Medicare Lady was making people crazier than they already were.
That said, I had assumed that this retrospective examination and contemplation of TV in the year ’23 was destined to be about the new.
Hence the flourishing business of game shows, “unscripted” celebrity-reality series and nonfiction programming about serial murderers, which are always comforting to those of us not being murdered.
Persons:
Sean McCabe, lurched, Martha