There was much to like in 2025. That little streaming revolution we've all been reading so much about finally slowed down to take a breath, which allowed the rest of us to take one as well. The British TV invasion continued, and the Taylor Sheridan one ("Landman," Season 2), too. Billy Joel finally got the TV embrace he deserved (as did Jayne Mansfield). The Emmys and Oscars yielded memorable telecasts. Meanwhile, one genuinely great and underappreciated series ("Andor") got the wrap it deserved.

This Year of the Tube was a quiet, if not quite meditative, one, as it continued to recover from two wrenching strikes and mass layoffs. TV was forced to slow down, turn inward, take stock, or at least grapple with the pressing question of what people (you and me) actually want to watch. In this

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