We’re as happy to argue for hours about the merits of oft-maligned Christmas songs as the next group of highly opinionated culture writers; I personally will think very hard about engaging in fisticuffs to defend the honor of Paul McCartney’s “Wonderful Christmastime.” However, as we stare down whatever 2025 is going to be, it’s time to set aside our pettiest differences to participate in one of the best traditions December has to offer : celebrating TV’s best needle drops of 2024. Need a righteously intense anthem? Motörhead and Rage Against the Machine are ready to go! Want to sob your eyes out? Bronski Beat and Kris Kristofferson have you covered.
And if laughter’s on your list of the best things in life, go straight to No. 1. 10.
Appears in: Episode 203, “Psychological Something-ism” Angie McMahon’s imperfection-celebrating anthem soundtracks several plot threads in the last minutes of “Psychological Something-ism,” suiting each one equally well. Jimmy’s client Grace, who like McMahon’s narrator feels like she’s been lying on her living room floor for the last six months, finally lets go of the Los Angeles chapter of her life and heads back to Vancouver. Likewise, Jimmy lets go of trying to be right, instead walking gratefully into the (mostly) warm welcome Brian and Charlie offer him following a huge, not-quite-air-clearing argument.
Alice, though, is putting herself through bad judgment-laden trials by fire, layering rage on top of regret.
