The Telly Addict Awards 2011–Part 1

So, finally we are coming to the end of 2011 and so it’s time for the Telly Addict Awards to be handed out.

BADDIE OF THE YEAR

     There have been many bad guys strutting their stuff on the small screen this year. This year Dexter really found himself up against a true monster in the form of Travis Marshall while Once Upon A Time boasted not one but two brilliant bad guys in the form of The Evil Queen and Rumplestiltskin. Over here, Appropriate Adult gave us a truly chilling Fred and Rose West while the soaps all boasted their fair share of bad guys. It is a soap that (in my opinion) gave us one of the baddest baddies of 2011. So the winner of Baddie of The Year goes to………………………………………………………………………………………………….MICHAEL MOON from Eastenders. When Michael Moon first came to the square he seemed like a bit of a cheeky chappy. As Alfie Moons cousin, at first he didn’t show any characteristics that often precede evilness. This year though, he really went off the scales. His growing infatuation of Ronnie Mitchell turned sinister as the year went on resulting in him launching a vendetta against her. When it seemed like Kat and Alfie were ready to forgive Ronnie for stealing the baby, Michael stepped in to turn them back against her. He began playing the Moons against the Mitchells for no other reason than his own entertainment. For most bad guys that would be enough for one year but not for Michael. His fathers return into his life gave him a whole new game as he set about bringing him down. This resulted in the sickest of plans as he spent months preparing to make his father pay for his mothers death years before. He got his brother interested in boxing, trained him up, gave him a few fights before setting him up against a psycho with a reputation for killing his opponents in the ring. His brother ended up in hospital and Michael eventually got found out resulting in a swift downfall. Now as 2011 ends he is on the way back up. He has a new enemy in Derek Branning and a new ally in Janine Butcher. Although there have been perhaps greater feats of evil achieved by other characters, Michael wins this award for how he goes about his bad ways. It’s the looks he gives and his patience in playing the long game. You get the feeling that he is capable of anything and for me that is truly terrifying.

BEST STORYLINE OF THE YEAR

We have enjoyed some great storylines this year. The soaps have thrown out some fantastic story's with Eastenders thrilling us with the pick in my opinion. The slow burning Masood/Kahn has been a year long storyline only ending a couple of days ago in truly explosive style. Dexter has kept me hooked with one of it’s best seasons while Doctor Who gave us a truly confusing story with great pay offs. It has also been a great year for new concepts. Outcasts may have been cancelled but the story of human beings settling on a new planet is a fantastic story with loads of potential. Mad Men also gave us a weaving story of four friends caught up in a drugs deal in Majorca. My storyline of the year goes to a show that gave us the best concept I have seen for some time. I think that the writers did everything they could with the story and more and they also gave us a relatively plausible explanation for the events depicted. The Telly Addict Storyline of the Year goes to…………………………………………………………………………………………………

TORCHWOOD:MIRACLE DAY. What would happen were no one to die is a simple concept on it’s own. But throw in that people can still get injured and grow old yet not die and you have a truly terrifying story. The show depicted a terrorist blowing himself apart yet still surviving (the blinking eye in the middle of a pile of burnt goo proved that). A woman was in a car as it went into a crusher lived despite being crushed to death inside a mangled cube of metal. It was a truly terrifying depiction that also meant that the previously immortal Captain Jack Harkness could now die. People who should have died were sent to camps to be burnt to dust in massive furnaces while the pharmaceutical industry took control of the various governments around the world. It was a fantastic storyline that I think warrants this award. Sure there were many other storylines that captured the imagination but Torchwood:Miracle Day really made me think and it’s not often that that happens.

Next post I’ll be handing out the awards for Hero and Heroine of the year.