Best TV Shows of 2022
Ranked by our critic's grades, best first.
AndorThe Star Wars show for people who had given up on Star Wars, and the best television the franchise will ever produce.Read the review
Slow HorsesGary Oldman as the most disgusting spymaster in fiction, in the best British thriller of the decade.
The BearThe most kinetic camera on television, attached to a show that stalled badly in its third year.
Jeen-YuhsCoodie filmed Kanye West before anyone cared: two acts form an unrepeatable record of ambition, and the third can only watch fame take him away.
SeveranceAn immaculate object whose premise is circled more than pressed, and still one of the best-made series on television.
House of the DragonA civil war fought entirely by one family, with two great performances and a serious pacing problem.
PeacemakerA show about a jingoistic idiot in a chrome helmet that turns out to be about a son and his monstrous father.
The GlorySong Hye-kyo plays against type as a patient, icy avenger in a revenge drama built like a game of Go, until its second half reaches for melodrama.
The SandmanReverent, expensive and beautiful, and slightly airless in the way that reverence usually is.
The Lincoln LawyerA legal procedural with no ambition beyond being good at it, which turns out to be enough for four seasons.