Switching things up a bit this week by reversing the usual order. You’re in Bizarro Screen Time now, folks!
Assigned Viewing: Barry (HBO Max, or HBO, or Max, or whatever it’s called now)
Four critically acclaimed shows called it quits this week: Succession, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Ted Lasso, and Barry. I didn’t watch Succession, so I have no thoughts on that (though Zandy Hartig has plenty), and I stopped watching Mrs. Maisel after season two, so I have few thoughts on it either.
Ted Lasso and Barry I watched from start to finish, however, and it’s kind of interesting to think of both shows in conjunction. Ted Lasso is sui generis in that I’ve never seen a show that received near-unanimous critical and popular acclaim in its first season and then decide, over...