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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 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 Best...
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,...
- 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.
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- The Good Fight
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Servant is technically a drama, but season 2 of the M. Night Shyamalan-produced thriller was wildly, unexpectedly funny. Still, this supernatural saga has a heart of darkness. As Dorothy (Lauren Ambrose) and Sean Turner (Toby Kebbell) search for their son Jericho — a baby who may or may not be a supernatural reincarnation of their realchild — the s...
Three seasons in, this Karate Kid sequel continues to be a special kind of miracle. In a TV landscape littered with lackluster rehashes of nostalgia IP via reboots, revivals, and "reimaginings," Cobra Kai created a brand new universe anchored by two familiar-yet-evolved characters, Johnny Lawrence (William Zabka) and Daniel LaRusso (Ralph Macchio)....
"Happy endings are for movies," notes Blanca (Mj Rodriguez) in Pose's series finale. "But I do believe in happy moments." It's a philosophy that has worked beautifully for this glorious drama that celebrated the beauty of the '80s and '90s ballroom scene without ever downplaying the ugliness and hate faced by the LGBTQ community. The third and fina...
How can a show that's so hard to watch be so freaking enjoyable? Not since the original Office has a cringe comedy hurt so good. Nasim Pedradstars as Ferydoon "Chad" Amani, a 14-year-old freshman who is maniacally focused on two things: Attaining popularity and rejecting his Persian heritage. Chad contains multitudes, all of which collide to create...
If God ever needs someone to put together a "previously on" montage, He should definitely hire Robert and Michelle King. The Good Fight showrunners managed to cram (what felt like) 150 years of history — COVID, quarantine, Zoom fatigue, the murder of George Floyd, BLM protests, Ruth Bader Ginsberg, the election, the waiting after the election, the ...
Deborah Vance, the legendary Las Vegas comedian at the center of Hacks, looks like your mom's country club friend, the fun one everyone loves. Her laugh, a throaty explosion of delight, must be earned. And her apple-cheeked smile glows with matronly warmth — unless it's melting you with devastating disdain. After 2,500 Vegas shows, Deborah is losin...
The most painful TV cancellation of the year. Creator Owen Dennis didn't just make an amazing world full of eccentric science-fiction wonder. He successfully re-performed that trick in every episode, with the reality-tossed characters discovering a different freaky-absurd landscape on every new car of the titular train. The fourth season, titled "D...
In season 2 of this semi-autobiographical rapcom, Dave Burd(who sorta plays himself) struggles with writer's block. The show around him radiates pure artistic confidence, swerving between pop-music decadence, anxious cultural button-pushing, and intimate romantic turmoil. I love Burd's chatty-to-a-fault persona, which is understandably annoying to ...
And now on to the comedy that dares you to laugh at canine euthanasia. And that's not even the bleakest gag in this acidic Britcom about a pub-owning alcoholic who stashes vodka in local hedges to hide his excessive boozing. You forgive Stephen (David Mitchell) his trespasses. He's got a lot on his muddled mind. His long-lost foster brother Andrew ...
"We're not gonna go down without a fight," Amy (America Ferrera) tells her colleagues. They're frontline workers during COVID-19, and brick-and-mortar employees in the online era. That's two end times — and then Superstore itself got canceled. The workplace comedy went down swinging with a wondrous (if socially distant) final season. Garrett (Colto...
Best of 2021. 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...
