Top 10 TV Shows: Drama
The highest-graded drama TV shows we have reviewed, best first.
The WireThe most rigorous institutional novel American television has produced, and it never once flatters you.Read the review
The SopranosThe show that proved television could hold two irreconcilable readings at once, and never blinked.
Breaking BadA five-season equation where every object planted in year one detonates exactly on schedule.
Game of ThronesTelevision's last true monoculture: peerless craft and casting, undone at the end by its own plotting.
DarkThe rare time-loop show whose rules hold under audit, and whose grief holds up just as well.
WestworldA first season of real philosophical nerve, followed by three seasons of increasingly expensive noise.
True DetectiveOne immaculate season, one catastrophic second, and an anthology that never solved the arithmetic again.
SherlockTwo extraordinary series, one indulgent, and one that should never have been made.
AndorThe Star Wars show for people who had given up on Star Wars, and the best television the franchise will ever produce.
PluribusVince Gilligan builds a happy apocalypse and hands Rhea Seehorn the only unhappy person left in it.
