Television

The Saturday Paper’s television critic looks back at the highlights of 2024.

At best a mildly amusing time waster, HBO’s Dune: Prophecy can’t compete with the storytelling and epic vistas of the films.

Screenwriter Lucas Taylor has no social media and doesn’t even own a smartphone, but that hasn’t stopped him from being the force behind two hit Australian shows, In Limbo and Black Snow.

Apple TV+’s Shrinking is a glorious study of connection, and of friendship through life’s inescapable transitions and difficult initiations.

Brian Jordan Alvarez’s new sitcom, English Teacher, picks up where Mike Judge’s 1990s series King of the Hill left off.

Charlie Covell’s brilliant Netflix series Kaos doesn’t so much retell the Greek myths as overthrow their narrative laws to build a new and necessary story.

Nominated for Best Drama at the Emmy Awards, espionage thriller Slow Horses is finally seeing some well-deserved attention ahead of the release of a splendid fourth season.

The unpredictable and compelling new series from Apple TV+, Sunny, morphs through sci-fi, thriller, noir mystery, family drama and comedy.

House of the Dragon may be more about share prices than actual storytelling, but it takes a familiar look at the dark side of political power.

Season three of The Bear is as good as television can be: a mastering of time and emotion, a study of character and success, and the gaps between the two.