Top 10 TV Shows: Thrillers
The highest-graded thriller TV shows we have reviewed, best first.
Breaking BadA five-season equation where every object planted in year one detonates exactly on schedule.Read the review
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.
AndorThe Star Wars show for people who had given up on Star Wars, and the best television the franchise will ever produce.
Slow HorsesGary Oldman as the most disgusting spymaster in fiction, in the best British thriller of the decade.
FargoFour anthology seasons in the Coen register, two of them close to perfect.
BarryA hitman comedy that spends four seasons removing every excuse it gave you to like him.
MindhunterTwo agents and a tape recorder, shot with more care than most feature films.
The AmericansTwo Soviet spies raise a family in Reagan's Washington, and the marriage is more frightening than the espionage.
