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Jan 3, 2022 · "Only Murders in the Building" came out on top as the best show of the year, with the most reviews on a perfect score. Find out which series made our list of the 94 Certified Fresh TV...
Best TV Shows 2021. One series reigns over all the others, and that’s the Marvel series about Scarlet Witch Wanda Maximoff and her Mind Stone–powered husband, Vision. Be it superhero,...
Best New Series 2021. Not only is Only Murders in the Building — starring Steve Martin, Martin Short, and Selena Gomez — the top New Series of 2021, but the show’s first season also won the...
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- Mare of Eastown. This HBO limited series is much more than your typical true-crime drama. The iconic Kate Winslet plays Mare as she struggles to exist in the brutal small town she has always called home.
- Succession. Another HBO original series and one of the best TV shows of 2021, Succession is everything you want a business drama to be. Focusing on the Roy family, who own the biggest media and entertainment company in the world, watch in anticipation as their father steps down and everything changes.
- Ted Lasso. Sports fans, buckle up, this one’s for you. Focusing on the protagonist whom the series is named after, this breakout show follows Ted’s journey as he heads to London to manage AFC Richmond, a struggling English Premier League soccer team, after years of working as an American football coach.
- Squid Game. Hands down one of the best TV shows of 2021, Squid Game certainly made its mark on 2021 in a weird, wacky and wonderful way. The South Korean series expertly crafts a dystopia littered with child-like premises, making it equally accessible and disorientating.
- It’s a Sin. Russell T. Davies, UK. Davies creates an evocative, personal time capsule of a 1980s London beset by the Aids crisis – it’s the first great British series on the subject.
- The Underground Railroad. Barry Jenkins, US. Jenkins’s gorgeous-looking adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel is breathtaking storytelling which curves its way through an alternative history of slavery.
- Mare of Easttown. Brad Ingelsby, US. Kate Winslet excels as grieving mother and weary police officer Mare Sheehan in Ingelsby’s investigation of a small-town Pennsylvania murder.
- The North Water. Andrew Haigh, UK. Haigh explores the turbulent relationships between men aboard a 19th-century whaling ship in this epic but intimate five-part drama.
From Squid Game to Succession, Ted Lasso, Mare of Easttown and Maid, Hugh Montgomery, Amy Charles and Eddie Mullan pick the year’s greatest programmes to binge right now.
Dec 8, 2021 · The 20 Best TV Shows of 2021. From dark social satires to quirky comedies, twisty superhero tales, uplifting sci-fi, and more, this year's small-screen gems were bold, surprising, and 100...
