As a red-blooded, flag-waving, apple-pie-consuming American, I am feeling so grateful for \u201cDying for Sex,\u201d easily the best show of the year, along with \u201cThe Lowdown,\u201d \u201cUntamed\u201d and a handful of others. Without these series, this entire \u201cbest of\u201d 2025 TV could well be titled \u201cA Salute to English Television.\u201d There are reasons for this.<\/p>\n
One is curatorial. Despite what felt like an Anglo insurgence this year, we don\u2019t get to watch everything someone would see in the U.K.\u00a0We get a selection. So the quality of the imported skews better than the domestic. It\u2019s like beer: There\u2019s Bud Light\u2014game shows, food shows, network sitcoms, network dramas, Discovery documentaries, a multitude of programs devoted to serial killers, and \u201cThe View.\u201d And there\u2019s Schorschbr\u00e4u\u00a0Schorschbock 57\u2014which would be German opera on PBS.<\/p>\n
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