Cheers & Jeers
Outlander
for thinking outside the box. On top of taking some big emotional swings with Claire and Jamie (Caitriona Balfe and Sam Heughan, pictured), Season 5 of the Starz time-travel epic threw us creative curveballs like an episode partly in black-and- white and the harrowing season finale peek at what the Frasers’ lives would have looked like in the ’60s.
Cheers to
The Mandalorian
for delivering more than just the adorable Baby Yoda. With no new movies on the horizon, the rollicking space Western from Disney+ has handily filled the Sarlacc-size gap in our lives with two seasons of cinematic action, clever links to the Star Wars canon and (nonedible!) Easter eggs aplenty.