and the zeitgeist’s love of trendy horror was augmented by the show’s clever connection between ghosts and grief. —Jacob Oller (Photo: Steve Dietl/Netflix)



Network: HBO



The year in TV was filled with depressing, yearning, half-comedy comedies. But not Barry. Thanks to its nuanced lead performance by Bill Hader, impeccable direction by Hader and Atlanta mainstay Hiro Murai, and constant entertainment provided by Henry Winkler, the hitman-turned-actor comedy actually worked, and then some. It showed a man that was perfectly competent and perfectly depressed, whose escape from that depression was a rocky one filled with loss, violence, and pain—all in the pursuit of one goddamn good thing in this world. And it was hilarious from top to bottom. —Jacob Oller (Photo: Michele K. Short/HBO)



Network: BBC America



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Solid organ transplant began in the 1950s with a kidney being the first successful organ to be transplanted. In 1963, Dr James Hardy performed the first recorded lung transplantation, but the patient died after 18 days postoperatively. Over the next 2 decades, a number of additional attempts were made, all with early postoperative mortality. In 1981, Dr Norman Shumway and Dr Bruce Reitz performed the first successful heart--lung transplants on three patients, two of whom survived. Two years later, Toronto Lung Transplant Group performed the first successful single lung transplant and the patient survived for 8 years postoperatively \[[@CR1]\].

Fast forward to the present, the International society for Heart and Lung Transplantation (ISHLT) has recorded over 64,000 cases of adult lung transplants. The median survival after lung transplant has also increased