Happy Holidays! - Next Episode

Sat Dec 23, 2023 - Happy Holidays!

There may be no real snow (at least around me) - but here, on Next Episode - it's always snowy this time of the year!

Reflecting a little on the year that has gone by, here is a list of the 10 shows I watched and enjoyed the most this year.

What are yours?

To compile the list, I wrote this little tool that told me what I've marked watched in 2023 and made it into a list here.

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Wishing everyone joy and health this holiday season! If you're not a fan of our virtual snow, just click here to turn it off.

comments [39]

comment # 1 by soulalways

happy chrismas santah and thank you very much for all you do it is greatly appreciated here in England

comment # 2 by Miko791

Happy Xmas . And Thanks for the really great site over years

comment # 3 by markjrenna

Love your site! Happy Holidays!

comment # 4 by BlackBox

As every year l‘m amazed what you’ve done with this site, santah :)
Thank you very much and keep up the very good work.

Marry Christmas everyone

/BB

comment # 5 by Wizard

Happy Xmas Everyone

Great list feature, thanks.

comment # 6 by JBTV

Merry Christmas

comment # 7 by riperez

I love your snow and look forward to it each and every year! Love the site, keep up the great work & Happy Holidays to you and yours Santah!

comment # 8 by mrverene

Happy Holidays to all. Thanks for all your work, Santah

comment # 9 by dofus

Snow! Merry Christmas!

comment # 10 by arkaycee

Thanks for another helpful and fun year, Santah! (or should I say, Santah Claus? ;) ).

comment # 11 by crumbworks

Merry Christmas, everyone!

With life getting busier as we get older, I took on only one "new" show all year (the 2023 revival of "Frasier") and focused more on my existing shows + a bunch of shows that ended years ago. Watching shows that are over is so much easier since you can go at whatever pace you want :)

My top "still airing" shows of the year: Rick and Morty, Superman and Lois, and Loki (although I am not sure if Loki will return)

My top "finished" shows I watched this year: Person of Interest, Tru Calling, and Prison Break

Hope everyone has a nice end to 2023!

comment # 12 by bon_kers

Merry Xmas and a Happy New Year to one and all. I wonder what Santah is going to surprise us with in 2024!!

comment # 13 by MRN1971

A Cheery Merry Christmas from a Canadian gal having a brown Christmas herself. (how strange) I watch wayyyyy too many shows to choose just ten but a few standouts foe me are The Way Home, Accused, and Beef.
Just want to say a big thank you for your site and let you know its always up on my tabs and is always first because I use it that often throughout my day... THANK YOU and MERRY CHRISTMAS !!!

comment # 14 by WebWeaver64

Merry Christmas! Just posted on Facebook, and will make sure to share whenever I TV post. I am always singing your praises to the people in my life, but hadn't online.. Thanks for the reminder.

Hope 2024 brings you something wonderful!

comment # 15 by kneelb4zod

Merry xmas Santah. It's looking like a mild rainy day for me instead of the usual extreme heat.
My best shows for the year was Daisy Jones & the Six and The Bear S2

comment # 16 by beardrinksbeer

Merry Christmas santah,
(ain't it meant to be the other way around *scratches head*)
Merry Christmas one & all and a safe & Happy New Year

comment # 17 by ArniVidar

Happy holidays santah!
That list tool is interesting, but FYI it seems to not be working properly. There seems to be a bunch of shows on there that I haven't watched for years. :D

comment # 18 by Macwhite

That’s a very very nice thank you for all the steel bins you guys did three years ago and also happy have a happy holiday season as you are added it after the new year in 2024 and also please do update all the TV shows in 2024 2025 thank you for all your help for all the updates and see you in the future thank you

comment # 19 by santah

Oops, the tool had a little bug, where it would include other shows (not only those marked watched in 2023) for most users.

It's fixed now, please try it again!

comment # 20 by TeaAndApathy

Interesting, but it counts 73 episodes of a show as watched that were actually not because we are not given the option to mark shows as missed or ignored. ;)
But, as ever, thank you so much for giving us this site! Best wishes to you and the mods!

comment # 21 by crusader

Thank You For all You do throughout the year. Hope you have a great Christmas and A Happy New Year.

comment # 22 by Spyder23

Happy holidays to all!

comment # 23 by ellkay

I may not make a lot of noice around here, but this is the one site (and app!) that I use Every. Single. Day. Thank you for this, and a Merry Christmas to you all!

comment # 24 by ArniVidar

Thanks santah, that seems to be working grand.
One question though: Is the lists feature accessible on a link somewhere in the site's menu system? I've tried going through all the settings and the menus and can't find it anywhere.. only from this post, which will disappear soon. :)

comment # 25 by santah

@Arni - not available for now, but I plan on integrating it on the site somewhere soon enough!

The post may disappear from the homepage, but it will still be accessible through the news archive here: https://next-episode.net/news.html :)

comment # 26 by ArniVidar

Hah, well yeah, that's true, but I doubt many people read the news archives! :D

Any plans on making Movie lists as well? I don't think people would use them much (that's what IMDB's lists are for), but just wondering.

BTW, the search is just slightly buggy. If I copy a show name from https://next-episode.net/top_2023 and paste it into the search bar in the list manager, if there's a ' in the show name, the search fails.
(Just as an example: "Frieren: Beyond Journey's End" doesn't find anything, but "Frieren: Beyond Journey" finds the show.

comment # 27 by santah

@Arni - thanks, the bug is now fixed! No plans to bring the lists to Movies for now - indeed there are plenty of services for that ...

comment # 28 by ProphetZarquon

December's been a slow month for TV, for me: A handful of Rick & Morty episodes, a few final episodes of Archer, a couple Last Week Tonight, & nothing else particularly interesting. "Monarch: Legacy of Monsters" might be worth seeing? I dunno... I've been catching up on Pantheon, & on The Man In The High Castle

comment # 29 by valdi

Merry Xmas and thanks for your hard work

comment # 30 by aadilawan

https://next-episode.net/lists/l1925-top-shows-for-2023

comment # 31 by randyt

next-episode is a useful and reliable...thanks so much and happy new year!

comment # 32 by MimiCarr

Happy Holidays! Such a great idea and I really would love to be able to use it. It is, however, not going to ever be accurate for me because you don't (yet) have a "skip" option. Example: I find an old show that is "New" to ME. I add it to be tracked so I can keep up with my watching of it, then after watching some episodes, I realize I HAVE seen some of them & there are several I had no desire to watch and my only option is to mark them watched since I don't want to have them 'in my way'. Is there any plan to give us a skip button, hopefully in the extremely near future?

comment # 33 by bon_kers

2024 is nearly upon us all so HAPPY NEW YEAR to everyone connected to this brilliant site may you all prosper and your dreams come true.

comment # 34 by ArniVidar

@MimiCarr I just add those shows to the "Dropped" or the "Maybe later" tag, and then never check them again. That way the watched count is accurate, but they're never "in my way" again. :)

comment # 35 by MimiCarr

@ArniVidar I think that would move the entire show not just specific episodes, though, right?

comment # 36 by ArniVidar

Yes. Why would you care about a show after you've skipped it?

comment # 37 by TeaAndApathy

@MimiCarr, @Santah
Yes! :)
@ArniVidar
It's not the show that's skipped - it's the episode. Example, The Nature of Things. Take a look. There's no way I can or will ever watch all the episodes, but in order for them not to appear on my Episodes list, I have to mark them watched. That might not matter to you, but it matters to me and, apparently, MimiCarr.

comment # 38 by ArniVidar

Ah, gotcha, you're talking about (for example) skipping older episodes of a long running series, not skipping everything from here on out.

comment # 39 by blade344

+1 For the "skip" option. It would be useful for long running shows and reality shows like Survivor, where you don't plan to watch every season. I also like to see Special episodes on the site (I know there's an option to hide them), but I don't always watch them, so an option to skip them would be nice.

Happy holidays and here's my list of tv shows for 2023:
https://next-episode.net/lists/l1937-top2023

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