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From The New York Times, this is The Daily. I'm Melissa Kirsch, Deputy Editor of Culture & Lifestyle. As we close out 2024, I'll be talking with my colleagues around the newsroom about what they watched and listened to and read this year, about the things they loved and the things they didn't love.
Today, chief television critic James Ponowozik is here to talk about why TV might feel a little blah right now. And then our chief film critic Manola Dargis on her favorite movies of 2024 and why you shouldn't let the algorithm tell you what to watch. It's Thursday, December 26th. Jim Ponowozik, thanks so much for being here.
Oh, thanks for having me.
Okay, so Jim, fill in the blank. In the world of television, 2024 was the year of... Mid-TV.
Mid-TV. Yeah. It's not great. It's not terrible. It's just mid-TV. Explain what you mean by that. Mid-TV is okay TV of the present that kind of reminds you of great TV of the past. It's, you know, got a famous cast. It was shot in fancy locations. It's sleekly produced. It's tasteful, but it's just not especially memorable.
It doesn't have the quirks and bumps and idiosyncrasies that mark a show that you are going to remember and will stick with you for a long time.
So give me an example of what you mean.
Uh, Palme Royale on Apple TV. There are no doors on the back of the Palme Royale.
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