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No, the biggest shock for many is that there is only one episode per week.
Yes, that’s right, no matter how you watch it, on TV screen or personal device, HBO’s “Mare of Easttown” is episodic television. The old-fashioned kind. The good news? “Game of Thrones” was not the last big “appointment television” series after all. The bad news? After a year of locked-down binge-mania, we are suddenly forced to remember a time when “excruciating” referred not to the temptation to go ahead and binge the rest of the season even though it’s 2 a.m., but to the fact that this was not possible.
10. Wild Australia: After the Fires (ABC)
I tossed and turned about whether to include director Cian O’Clery’s hour-long, Hugo Weaving-narrated documentary about the Black Summer bushfires on this list – not because it isn’t well made and insightful, but because it’s a terrible example of burying the lede. The words “climate change” are mentioned for the first time 46 minutes in, which is an egregious mistake: context is important, as is understanding the nature of TV (i.e. that not everybody will watch until the end).
Trailer for Wild Australia: After the Fires
Otherwise, the production is insightful and compelling, in a very sad way, effectively comprehending the scale of what was lost during the worst wildlife disaster in modern history. Tempering the feeling of terrible emptiness is a desire to rebuild, with scientists, conservationists, volunteers and others cleaning up, studying the remains and hoping for a better future.