Top 10 TV Shows: Sitcoms
The highest-graded sitcom TV shows we have reviewed, best first.
The Office (US)The mockumentary sitcom that turned cringe into affection without ever going soft on Michael Scott.Read the review
Silicon ValleyThe sharpest tech satire ever filmed, with a dialogue engine that never sounds like writers guessing.
CommunityA sitcom whose default setting is formal experiment, and it still lands the feeling underneath.
Curb Your EnthusiasmTwelve seasons of social contract violation, plotted like farce and performed like documentary.
Arrested DevelopmentThe densest joke architecture ever built for a sitcom, and then a streaming service reopened it.
Eastbound & DownDanny McBride built a monster with a mullet and then refused to let him learn a single thing, which is exactly why it works.
Modern FamilyFive straight Emmys for a show that stopped growing halfway through, and a cast good enough to carry the rest.
Parks and RecreationSweet, sturdy and endlessly quotable, but it trades its bite for warmth once Pawnee stops being the joke.
The Thick of ItArmando Iannucci built the meanest vocabulary in British television, and Peter Capaldi swings it like an axe.
Abbott ElementaryA workplace mockumentary about Philadelphia teachers doing a hard job with no money, and the warmest, sharpest broadcast sitcom of its decade.
