Top 10 TV Shows: School
The highest-graded school TV shows we have reviewed, best first.
CommunityA sitcom whose default setting is formal experiment, and it still lands the feeling underneath.Read the review
Friday Night LightsA show about high school football that is really about a marriage, and one of the warmest dramas American television has made.
Abbott ElementaryA workplace mockumentary about Philadelphia teachers doing a hard job with no money, and the warmest, sharpest broadcast sitcom of its decade.
Freaks and GeeksEighteen episodes, twelve of them aired, and still the most honest hour anyone has made about being sixteen.
Buffy the Vampire SlayerThe show that taught American television how to build a season, and how to make its teenagers talk.
Vice PrincipalsDanny McBride and Walton Goggins burn down a high school over two seasons, and critics never quite forgave the first one.
GleeA high school musical that became a pop phenomenon; the numbers and the cast stay terrific long after the writing loses its way.
All of Us Are DeadA school siege zombie series with a nasty, inventive first half, stretched to twelve long episodes when eight would have done.
EliteThree seasons of glossy, self-aware trash about rich kids and murder, then five more that rerun the formula with new faces.
13 Reasons WhyOne gripping, reckless season carried by Katherine Langford, then three more that turned a story about grief into a lurid murder mystery.
