Year-End Lists

Slant Magazine: 25 Best TV Shows of 2018

[see also 2023 • 2022 • 2019 • 2017 • 2016]

1. Atlanta
2. The Haunting of Hill House
3. Big Mouth
4. Glow
5. Dear White People
6. The Deuce
7. BoJack Horseman
8. Homecoming
9. Legion
10. Killing Eve
11. The Handmaid’s Tale
12. The Americans
13. Better Call Saul
14. Bob’s Burgers
15. Random Acts of Flyness
16. The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story
17. Barry
18. The Good Place
19. High Maintenance
20. The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
21. Fauda
22. Pose
23. Silicon Valley
24. Mosaic
25. The Terror

Uproxx: Best TV Shows of 2018

[see also 2023 • 2022 • 2020]

1. Atlanta
2. The Americans
3. Killing Eve
4. Glow
5. Big Mouth
6. BoJack Horseman
7. Better Call Saul
8. The Terror
9. The Good Place
10. Legends of Tomorrow
11. The Good Fight
12. Barry
13. Succession
14. Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
15. Detroiters

Willa Paskin: 10 Best TV Shows of 2018, as published by Slate

[see also 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2017]

1. Succession
2. Glow
3. Killing Eve
4. Atlanta
5. Howards End
6. Babylon Berlin
7. Ugly Delicious
8. The Little Drummer Girl
9. High Maintenance
9. Dear White People
10. Hannah Gadsby: Nanette

Emily Nussbaum: My Not-Top-Ten Television List, as published by The New Yorker

This site is devoted to lists, but we always look forward to Emily Nussbaum's annual defiance of this silly tradition. Click through to see why.

We've taken the liberty of omitting her dislikes and not-seens, but those lists are worth reading, too.

[see also 2019 • 2017]

Consistently Great — I'm Serious

• Succession
• BoJack Horseman
• Jane the Virgin
• High Maintenance
• The Americans
• The End of the F***ing World
• The Good Fight
• A Very English Scandal

Alienating But Worth It

• The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story
• Atlanta
• Nathan for You
• Random Acts of Flyness
• The Deuce

Worth It, but It Flew off the Rails

• Killing Eve
• Babylon Berlin
• Dietland

Good, Not Great, or Perfect, Maybe, but What Is Great?? Are You so Perfect?

• Glow
• Big Mouth
• The Good Place
• Orange is the New Black
• This Close
• The Bisexual
• Dear White People
• Pose
• Crazy Ex-Girlfriend

Fun!

• Younger
• You
• Drunk History
• Schitt's Creek
• Black Mirror, "USS Callister"
• Brooklyn Nine-Nine
• Claws
• Queer Eye
• My Brilliant Friend

These Are Movies, but They Were on TV-Streaming Services, so I Recommend Them

• The Tale
• The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
• Private Life

Maureen Ryan: Top TV Shows of 2018

[see also 2021 • 2017 • 2016]

Top 10 TV Shows of 2018 (in alphabetical order)

• The Americans
• Atlanta
• Better Call Saul
• BoJack Horseman
• Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
• The Good Fight
• The Good Place
• Jane the Virgin
• Killing Eve
• One Day at a Time

Honorable mentions

• American Vandal
• Barry
• Billions
• Dear White People
• The Deuce
• Fresh Off the Boat
• Grown-ish
• Insecure
• Mosaic
• Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams
• Save Me
• Suits
• Trust
• Wild Wild Country

The Rest of the Top 40

• Altered Carbon
• Bodyguard
• Brooklyn Nine-Nine
• Castle Rock
• Counterpart
• Legends of Tomorrow
• Doctor Who
• Everything Sucks!
• The Haunting of Hill House
• Homecoming
• Howards End
• Into the Badlands
• Killjoys
• Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
• The Little Drummer Girl
• Mary Kills People
• Miss Sherlock
• My Brilliant Friend
• Hannah Gadsby: Nanette
• National Treasure: Kiri
• Pose
• Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat
• Sharp Objects
• The Staircase
• Succession
• Superstore
• A Very English Scandal
• Vida
• The Wine Show
• Wynonna Earp

Troy Patterson: My Favorite TV Shows of 2018, as published by The New Yorker

• The Americans
• Atlanta
• Barry
• Corporate
• The End of the F***ing World
• Heathers
• Homecoming
• Killing Eve
• Random Acts of Flyness
• Succession

The A.V. Club: Best TV of 2018

[see also 2021 • 2020 • 2010s • 2019 • 2017 • 2016]

1. The Americans
2. The Good Place
3. Atlanta
4. Killing Eve
5. Glow
6. Pose
7. Better Call Saul
8. Lodge 49
9. The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
10. Barry
11. Sharp Objects
12. BoJack Horseman
13. The Good Fight
14. The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story
15. One Day at a Time
16. Big Mouth
17. Succession
18. Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
19. Homecoming
20. Brooklyn Nine-Nine
21. Legends of Tomorrow
22. Billions
23. The Terror
24. Vida
25. American Vandal

The San Francisco Chronicle: 14 Best TV Shows of 2018

Guilty Pleasures

• 9-1-1
• The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story
• 90 Day Fiancé

1. American Vandal
2. Killing Eve
3. The Haunting of Hill House
4. Atlanta
5. Queer Eye
6. The Terror
7. BoJack Horseman
8. The Americans
9. Barry
10. The Good Place
11. The Great British Bake Off
12. Wild Wild Country
13. Unforgotten
14. Glow

Sophie Gilbert: 22 Best TV Shows of 2018, as published by The Atlantic

[see also 2017]

• America to Me
• The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story
• Atlanta
• Barry
• Big Mouth
• BoJack Horseman
• The End of the F***ing World
• The Good Place
• Homecoming
• Howards End
• Killing Eve
• The Little Drummer Girl
• My Brilliant Friend
• Patrick Melrose
• Queer Eye
• Random Acts of Flyness
• Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat
• Sharp Objects
• Sorry for Your Loss
• Succession
• Wild Wild Country
• You

LaToya Ferguson: The Best TV Shows of 2018, as published by ScreenCrush

[see also 2020 • 2019]

1. Atlanta
2. Killing Eve
3. Legends of Tomorrow
4. Glow
5. The Good Fight
6. The Americans
7. The Good Place
8. Barry
9. Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
10. Brockmire