I would not have expected something like this to be adapted from a "smut" book series. The cast, too, did a great job with performances and depictions that seemed to grow with every passing episode until they felt like people that you have known dearly for life. The surprise of the year.

Now, I wish I could have what Shane and Ilya, as well as Scott and Kip, have. That's all I want. Where is my all-consuming love? In Canada?

Single setting episode that felt simple and still and ended up creating such a profound depiction of two men coming to terms with their love for each other, imagining their life with each other, in a way that is rarely depicted.

I started crying 3 minutes into it because of Scott Hunter's beautiful speech. I am glad we got to see that storyline before the cottage. François Arnaud, the man that you are. The episode was gorgeously shot and so beautifully written...

They are usually deeply tragic and fatal, with huge stakes attached to them, violent and sexy in ways that seem to take the love out of it all. I mean, they have their place and are legit, but this felt so precious. I'll cherish this show forever.

The longing, yearning, the idea of someone becoming your world... this felt like I had never seen a love story between men, like watching it portrayed for the first time...

This is the kind of shit that becomes a part of you and you carry with yourself. I see myself in Shane. The intimacy displayed in this episode, even beyond the sex (even the sex was tender), is something you don't see between men...

Boosted by gorgeous cinematography and production design, this show was one of the best most exhilarating TV surprises of the year.

The way it takes its time and has episodes where things are explored in creative ways to deepen and expand the character study and world-building is the kind of thing a good showrunner like Gilligan is known for...

Touching on themes related to AI, worldwide pandemic, mono culture and the rise of paranoia and falsehoods disguised as truth. How people respond to a crisis differently...

A lot of push and pull in terms of intentions, who is playing who. There is sadness and isolation explored, how much a person needs their person as much as humanity as a whole to exist despite being self-reliant...

Carrying within her, all the shades of human experience, personality, moods and tones, in all its beautiful, confounding, angering, disappointing and winning beauty. Its ideas and world-building are addictive and somehow therapeutic in the way these hive minds operate...

Rhea Seehorn delivers a consistently bold and ferocious performance with a character that is not easy to like or be around, but in the absence of humanity, she seems like the most human person...