Best TV Shows of 2024
Ranked by our critic's grades, best first.
ShōgunA prestige epic that trusts subtitles, silence and its Japanese cast, and is enormously better for it.Read the review
The PenguinA gangster tragedy that happens to be set in Gotham, and Cristin Milioti is better in it than anyone.
FalloutA video game adaptation that understood the joke of its source, which is the thing none of the others managed.
RipleySteven Zaillian films Highsmith in black and white and at a crawl, and Andrew Scott's cold, patient Tom Ripley makes the slowness feel like menace.
TiresCritics found no plot and said so. The shop is still the funniest room on Netflix, and it improves every season.
X-Men '97A continuation of a thirty year old cartoon that is braver and better written than the films ever were.
Baby ReindeerA stalking story where the hardest thing to watch is how much the victim wants to be wanted.
Nobody Wants ThisKristen Bell and Adam Brody make an interfaith romcom fizz; the writing around them leans on tired jokes about Jewish women and thins out in season two.
The Gentlemen (2024 Series)Guy Ritchie's film reborn as a country-house caper: slick, violent and funny in bursts, held together by Theo James as the calm man in the chaos.
LandmanBilly Bob Thornton carries a Texas oil drama that keeps writing him speeches instead of scenes.