Top 10 TV Shows: Psychological
The highest-graded psychological TV shows we have reviewed, best first.
PluribusVince Gilligan builds a happy apocalypse and hands Rhea Seehorn the only unhappy person left in it.Read the review
Lord of the FliesThe first television version of Golding's novel, and it finds the horror in how quickly the boys agree with each other.
BaitRiz Ahmed writes himself an audition for James Bond and turns four days of it into the sharpest comedy of the year.
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.
MaidPoverty as arithmetic, with an on-screen tally of every dollar and Margaret Qualley carrying ten hard episodes without once asking for pity.
Sharp ObjectsA Southern Gothic murder mystery far more interested in memory and damage than in the murders, with Amy Adams and Patricia Clarkson at their best.
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.
YellowjacketsLord of the Flies with a nineties soundtrack and a superb double cast; the survival horror grips, and the present-day mystery promises more than it pays.
Cape FearJavier Bardem is terrifying for ten hours inside a story that has roughly four hours of plot.
His & HersTessa Thompson and Jon Bernthal are considerably better than the mystery they are stuck inside.
