Best TV Shows of 2019
Ranked by our critic's grades, best first.
ChernobylFive hours on the cost of lies, staged with the patience of a procedural and the dread of a horror film.Read the review
Russian DollA time loop comedy that uses its gimmick to talk about addiction, grief and inherited damage, and Natasha Lyonne's rasp makes all of it funny.
When They See UsFour parts that give five wrongly convicted boys their names back, anchored by a Jharrel Jerome performance that is almost too painful to watch.
Watchmen (2019 Series)The only sequel to Alan Moore's book worth having, and it opens with a massacre most Americans were never taught.
Kingdom (2019 Series)Joseon court politics and a plague of the starving dead fit so well together that the zombies become the argument, not the gimmick.
Doom PatrolA superhero show about trauma, therapy and a sentient genderqueer street, and it means every word of it.
Harley QuinnA filthy adult cartoon that is also the most emotionally literate thing DC has made about its own characters.
UnbelievableKaitlyn Dever's half is devastating, and the Colorado investigation around it is a careful procedural that rarely surprises.
The Righteous GemstonesA megachurch family comedy with genuine affection for the people it is mocking, and John Goodman anchoring all of it.
The BoysA superhero satire with one great villain and a plot that stopped moving after the third season.