Best TV Shows of 2013
Ranked by our critic's grades, best first.
Rick and MortyThe highest premise-per-minute rate on television, wrapped around a genuinely bleak argument.Read the review
The AmericansTwo Soviet spies raise a family in Reagan's Washington, and the marriage is more frightening than the espionage.
Peaky BlindersStyle deployed with enough conviction to become substance, on a plot that resets every series.
Brooklyn Nine-NineA joke-dense workplace comedy carried by Andre Braugher's deadpan and an unusually generous ensemble.
Orange Is the New BlackIt used a privileged white narrator as a Trojan horse and then handed the show to everyone else.
Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.It took a film released halfway through its first season to tell this show what it was about.
House of CardsThe show that proved a streaming service could make prestige drama, and then spent four years forgetting how.
DadsA multi camera sitcom about two men and their fathers that reaches for the cheapest joke available every time.