Top 10 TV Shows: Political
The highest-graded political TV shows we have reviewed, 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
Angels in AmericaMike Nichols films Tony Kushner's great play with a cast that swept every acting Emmy, and the language survives the move almost intact.
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.
Show Me a HeroSix episodes about council votes, court orders and 200 units of public housing that add up to one of HBO's most gripping political dramas.
Parks and RecreationSweet, sturdy and endlessly quotable, but it trades its bite for warmth once Pawnee stops being the joke.
The Good WifeThe network legal drama that played like cable: a scandal-hit political wife rebuilds her life in a Chicago law firm, written with wit, nerve and a deep bench.
John AdamsA handsome, argumentative history in which Paul Giamatti's prickly Adams is matched, and often bettered, by Laura Linney's Abigail.
The Thick of ItArmando Iannucci built the meanest vocabulary in British television, and Peter Capaldi swings it like an axe.
The West WingSeven seasons of clever people arguing about policy at a jog, and network drama never sounds this good again.
South ParkNearly thirty years of construction paper satire, and still the fastest show on television at turning the week into a joke.
