This year has been exceptionally good for the entertainment industry, with new series dropping and movies raking in the money. Streaming is of course always on the rise, with Netflix leading the charge for online content by spending 16 billion this year alone. Discovering a new show to watch is like falling in love for the first time.
It’s magical...
And sometimes, you get your heart broken into a million pieces. Sometimes you stumble upon shows that are so bad that you seriously consider not watching TV ever again. Bafflingly, amazingly bad.
Here are four of the worst shows of the year, those amazing epic fails that made us scratch our heads in astonishment. New Look The biopic is quickly becoming my worst genre: the main problem is shying away from the worst aspects of their protagonists, which makes sense as no estate will greenlight a show that trashes their relatives. But that doesn’t mean we have to suffer a revisionist take on them.
New Look is an Apple+ series about the birth of the modern fashion industry, focusing on Coco Chanel and Christian Dior in Paris, during and after the Second World War. Bizarrely, fashion takes a back seat in this supposedly fashion-centric show, instead focusing on the hero’s relationship with the Nazi regime that occupied Paris at the time, which would have been fine, if the show didn’t gloss over Chanel’s well-documented relationship with the Germans. The show makes cheap excuses and tries to pull on heartstrings but falls flat.
