December hasn’t started yet, but that hasn’t stopped critics at several major websites from making end of the year lists for podcasts, and since this is 2019, best podcasts of the decade lists as well.
Unlike lists for other popular forms of entertainment like movies, television shows, music, and video games, critics lists for podcasts aren’t even close to congealing into a mass goop of monoculture where everyone unanimously picks the same things again and again. Those other lists are usually made up of the consumer products that have the most cultural cache and have made the most money.
Not so for podcasts, which in terms of popularity and cultural resonance since the breakthrough success of Serial, and S-Town lean heavily on long-running shows like The Joe Rogan Experience, This American Life, and WTF with Marc Maron.
Everyone’s list is very different, and many of them are made by multiple staff members with very different tastes. What these lists prove is that podcasts are the tip of the iceberg of the splintering of pop culture into specific niches for everyone.
Let’s take a look at these first few lists and see what stands out.
Time just published their “The 10 Best Podcasts of 2019” list in this order: 1619, You’re Wrong About..., Blank Check with Griffin and David, Last Days of August, Moonface, Decoder Ring, Scattered, Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend, Mobituaries, and Spectacular Failures.
These are mostly new podcasts, but Blank Check has been around for awhile and isn’t even the most well-known movie talk podcast, that would be The Flophouse where three hosts since 2007 discuss a bad movie and talk about it. Another notable thing is that Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend is the only representative of what has been one of the main podcast trends of 2019, the rise of the celebrity podcast.
Uproxx decided to go for the biggest niche in podcasting with their list The Best True Crime Podcasts of 2019. Here’s their top ten all penned by the same writer: The Ballad of Billy Balls, Root of Evil, Mogul, Scattered, To Live and Die in LA, 30 For 30: The Sterling Affairs, Over My Dead Body Season 2: Joe Exotic, The Last Days of August, Bad Batch, and White Lies.
What’s unusual here is that Wondery, who has made true crime a big part of their bread and butter, only has two shows on the list: Over My Dead Body Season 2, and Bad Batch. In these first two lists, only Scattered and Last Days of August appear twice, and Scattered, about a comedian finding out the story of his father’s life in Cuba, is not a true-crime but the writer admits to just loving the show.
For time’s sake, and for the sake of the length of the sentence it would require to write out all the entries, I’ll just talk about what’s notable or expected about The 30 Best Podcasts of the 2010’s by Paste.
Their top five are This American Life, WTF with Marc Maron, S-Town, Dirty John, and Serial which so far, are the closest thing to a “set it and forget it” kind of list. How Did This Get Made, Blank Check with Griffin and David, and The Last Podcast on the Left prove that entertainment critics really love podcasts that talk about movies. Planet Money checking in at #6 is the only nod to business podcasting, while The Daily at #29 is the only nod to actual news.
The Podmass column over at The AV Club that uses multiple writers has several similar entries to these other lists with The Podcasts That Defined the 2010’s. Instead of making a straight top ten list, they picked the most notable podcast from every year of the decade. 2010 Hardcore History, 2011 WTF with Marc Maron, 2012 Comedy! Bang! Bang!, 2013 Welcome to Night Vale, 2014 Serial, 2015 Invisibilia, 2016 Bodega Boys, 2017 Missing Richard Simmons, 2018 Everything is Alive, 2019 1619.
Bodega Boys, Missing Richard Simmons, and Everything is Alive are the only shows that haven’t appeared on the other lists. While The AV Club’s 2018 entry, Everything is Alive, about interviews with inanimate objects is an extremely interesting experimental show, but didn’t appear at all on this list from The Atlantic called The 50 Best Podcasts of 2018 showing again how many different points of view are represented in these lists.
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