Best TV Shows of 2014
Ranked by our critic's grades, best first.
Silicon ValleyThe sharpest tech satire ever filmed, with a dialogue engine that never sounds like writers guessing.Read the review
True DetectiveOne immaculate season, one catastrophic second, and an anthology that never solved the arithmetic again.
FargoFour anthology seasons in the Coen register, two of them close to perfect.
Olive KitteridgeFrances McDormand's caustic Maine schoolteacher across twenty-five years, in four parts that treat depression and long marriage with rare, dry honesty.
Happy ValleySarah Lancashire plays a police sergeant who has already lost everything, and British crime drama has not recovered from her.
The LeftoversTwo percent of the world vanishes, the show never explains it, and that refusal is the entire point.
BoJack HorsemanA handful of the boldest episodes in television, set in a Hollywood satire that repeats its relapse cycle more often than it examines it.
The KnickSteven Soderbergh directs all twenty episodes like a man with something to prove, and the surgery is far more alive than the melodrama around it.
Halt and Catch FireA bad first season about a Don Draper in a computer company, then three of the most humane seasons AMC ever aired.
GothamA police procedural that gave up on being one and became an operatic comic book fever dream instead.