[VIDEO] "Violent Delights": Celebrating the Best of TV in 2016
2016 may have been a huge burning garbage of a year in real life, but it's been a great year for television.
In order to celebrate the best of TV in 2016, I made the following supercut of some of our favourite shows and significant moments on screen this year (SPOILERS, obviously):
Featured Shows:
Game of Thrones
Orange is the New Black
Veep
Silicon Valley
The Get Down
The Crown
Bojack Horseman
Stranger Things
Halt and Catch Fire
The Night Of
Daredevil
This is Us
Black Mirror
Penny Dreadful
Mr Robot
You're The Worst
Westworld
Gilmore Girls
American Crime Story
House of Cards
Featured shows accidentally left off the list in the video:
The OA and Steven Universe
Did we miss your favourite show? Let us know how wrong or right we are in the comments below!
If you’re looking for a quick Fringe hit, we’ve selected a sampler of five shows coming up (or happening right now!) that are on our radar.
We Live In Time is a very human film, performed exquisitely by its two leads.
Homegrown brought a new and innovative way to use classical music to “activate” the community around us, allowing us to access live music performances in a seamless, easy-breezy, no-fuss experience.
The raw enormity of the feelings on screen are undeniably moving, and I found myself teary-eyed at a few points throughout.
Despite its rush to finish, Holy Cow is funny, warm and runs its course with a wry charm befitting of the characters.
The performances are all given a lot of heart, and expect it to win a lot of awards based on them.
In an age so inundated with the complexity, knowledge and trauma of oppression across the globe, it is immensely inspiring to bear witness to a war cry for future freedom.
Visit your local cinema freely. Go safely, and leave a piece of the happiness you brought with you.
The Monk and the Gun has a real heart. One worth seeing if you’re after some visually delightful, narratively relaxed escapism.
Presented by Bloomhouse Projects, this intimate recital will feature performances by internationally acclaimed Australian expats alongside emerging local talents in Australian opera and classical music.