Top 10 TV Shows: Action
The highest-graded action TV shows we have reviewed, best first.
Batman: The Animated SeriesPainted on black paper, scored by an orchestra, and still the definitive version of the character in any medium.Read the review
FalloutA video game adaptation that understood the joke of its source, which is the thing none of the others managed.
Squid GamePastel playgrounds, a debt crisis and a body count, and the whole world watched it in a fortnight.
X-Men '97A continuation of a thirty year old cartoon that is braver and better written than the films ever were.
PeacemakerA show about a jingoistic idiot in a chrome helmet that turns out to be about a son and his monstrous father.
Harley QuinnA filthy adult cartoon that is also the most emotionally literate thing DC has made about its own characters.
CastlevaniaThe game adaptation that proved Netflix could sell grown-up animation, at its best when Dracula is a grieving widower rather than a monster.
DaredevilThe hallway fight rewired television action and D'Onofrio's Kingpin is Marvel's best villain, but thirteen-episode seasons stretch every story thin.
Spider-NoirNicolas Cage in a fedora, shot in gorgeous black and white: a pulp Spider-Man that looks and sounds terrific and tells a thinner story than it deserves.
Daredevil: Born AgainThe retooling shows in every seam, and Cox and D'Onofrio are still worth every minute of it.
