Best TV Shows of 2008
Ranked by our critic's grades, best first.
Breaking BadA five-season equation where every object planted in year one detonates exactly on schedule.Read the review
Generation KillThe Iraq invasion as seen from the lead Humvee: funny, filthy, exhausting and damning, told with no score and no speeches.
John AdamsA handsome, argumentative history in which Paul Giamatti's prickly Adams is matched, and often bettered, by Laura Linney's Abigail.
Sons of AnarchyHamlet on motorcycles, magnificent whenever Katey Sagal is on screen and shapeless whenever the plot has to move.
True BloodLurid, funny Southern Gothic that drew HBO's biggest audiences since The Sopranos, then drowned in its own mythology long before the end.