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True TV: Best New TV of 2024
Remember 2024? It'll go down as a fantastic year for TV—and little else, because it was a yawningly uneventful 12 months.
The Penguin Remember 2024? It'll go down as a fantastic year for TV—and little else, because it was a yawningly uneventful 12 months. For every critically praised returning series like The Bear , Hacks and Shrinking , a new show premiered to steal the spotlight from the established hits.
Space is limited here, so I've narrowed the list down to a handful of freshman series that made a qualitative splash in '24. The Penguin (HBO/Max): It's a Batman show without Batman, and a Colin Farrell vehicle (mostly) without Colin Farrell—yet The Penguin still works.
Set in Gotham after the events of 2022's…
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