THE ART THAT ENTERTAINED, MOVED, AND INSPIRED US IN 2024
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8. EMILIA PÉREZ
5. THE LIGHT EATERS
9. THINGS FELL APART
5. CHARLI XCX
TV SHOWS
BY JUDY BERMAN
1. SHOGUN
An ar tistic triumph. A recordbreaking 18 Emmy wins. An all-time viewership high for FX. Two more seasons in develop ment for a title that was planned as a limited series. By every measure, Shogun is the TV success stor y of 2024. It wasn’t a foregone conclusion that a $200 million bet—on a largely Japaneselanguage production that was also the second high-profi le adaptation of James Clavell’s 1975 best seller about a 17th centur y English sailor (Cosmo Jar vis) who washes up in Japan and fi nds himself at the mercy of a politically isolated feudal lord (Hiroyuki Sanada)—was going to pay off. But, at a time when American audiences are assumed to have fragmented along demographic and par tisan lines, creators Justin Marks and Rachel Kondo ...