Year-End Lists

Paste Magazine: The 50 Best TV Shows of 2019

[see also 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2010s • 2018 • 2017 • 2016]

1. Fleabag
2. Succession
3. The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance
4. Chernobyl
5. Barry
6. Russian Doll
7. The Good Place
8. Unbelievable
9. Perpetual Grace, LTD
10. When They See Us
11. What We Do in the Shadows
12. Catastrophe
13. The Crown
14. Legends of Tomorrow
15. Counterpart
16. Good Omens
17. Killing Eve
18. I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson
19. The Good Fight
20. Glow
21. David Makes Man
22. On Becoming a God in Central Florida
23. Watchmen
24. One Day at a Time
25. Brooklyn Nine-Nine
26. Gentleman Jack
27. The Great British Bake Off
28. Pose
29. Speechless
30. BoJack Horseman
31. Jane the Virgin
32. Lodge 49
33. Back to Life
34. Derry Girls
35. Dead to Me
36. Les Misérables
37. Our Planet
38. Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
39. Evil
40. The Umbrella Academy
41. Shrill
42. Veep
43. The Spanish Princess
44. Years and Years
45. Dickinson
46. The Other Two
47. Better Things
48. Stumptown
49. Ramy
50. Sorry for Your Loss

Honorable Mention

• Victoria
• South Side
• The Righteous Gemstones
• Schitt's Creek
• Stranger Things
• Baskets
• Sex Education
• Primal

The Daily Beast: The 10 Best Movies of 2019

1. Her Smell
   Alex Ross Perry
2. Marriage Story
   Noah Baumbach
3. The Last Black Man in San Francisco
   Joe Talbot
4. Honeyland
   Tamara Kotevska and Ljubomir Stefanov
5. Uncut Gems
   Ben Safdie and Joshua Safdie
6. The Farewell
   Lulu Wang
7. Parasite
   Bong Joon-ho
8. I Lost My Body
   Jérémy Clapin
9. Knock Down the House
   Rachel Lears
10. Pain and Glory
    Pedro Almodóvar

Honorable Mention(s)

• Booksmart
  Olivia Wilde
• A Hidden Life
  Terrence Malick
• Monos
  Alejandro Landes
• Portrait of a Lady on Fire
  Céline Sciamma
• High Life
  Claire Denis
• American Factory
  Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert
• The Lighthouse
  Robert Eggers
• Ash is Purest White
  Jia Zhang-ke

The Atlantic: The 50 Best Podcasts of 2019, compiled by Laura Jane Standley and Eric McQuade. They've recused The Atlantic's own podcasts.

[see also 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2018]

1. Finding Fred
2. The Ballad of Billy Balls
3. Dolly Parton's America
4. 1619
5. Anthem (Homunculus)
6. Root of Evil: The True Story of the Hodel Family and the Black Dahlia
7. Headlong: Running from COPS
8. Confronting: O.J. Simpson with Kim Goldman
9. Still Processing
10. The Daily
11. This American Life
12. BROKEN: Jeffrey Epstein
13. This Land
14. Ear Hustle
15. Man In The Window: The Golden State Killer
16. Making Gay History (Stonewall 50)
17. Fiasco
18. Uncover (The Village)
19. Radiolab
20. Fatwa
21. Why Is This Happening? with Chris Hayes
22. You Must Remember This (Six Degrees of Song of the South)
23. School Colors
24. The Longest Shortest Time
25. Gay Future
26. Sick
27. 30 For 30 Podcasts (The Sterling Affairs)
28. Embedded
29. Mobituaries with Mo Rocca
30. Throughline
31. The Hurricane Tapes
32. Blackout
33. The Dropout: Elizabeth Holmes on Trial
34. Slow Burn (Season 3)
35. Switched on Pop
36. Sonic Boom
37. The Moment
38. The Stakes
39. The Open Ears Project
40. Rough Translation
41. The Big One
42. Love + Radio
43. Scattered
44. Mogul
45. Sooo Many White Guys
46. Spooked
47. Tell Them, I Am
48. The Last Days of August
49. Freaknik: A Discourse on a Paradise Lost
50. StartUp (The Final Chapter)

Revolt: 9 Top Hip Hop Albums of 2019

[see also 2018]

1. Eve
   Rapsody
2. Bandana
   Freddie Gibbs & Madlib
3. WWCD
   Griselda
4. Baby on Baby
   DaBaby
5. The Lost Boy
   YBN Cordae
6. Mirrorland
   EarthGang
7. May the Lord Watch
   Little Brother
8. Guns
   Quelle Chris
9. Die a Legend
   Polo G

NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour: Favorite TV Shows Of 2019

[see also 2018]

• Chernobyl
• The Crown
• Dead to Me
• Documentary Now!
• Fleabag
• The Good Place
• Los Espookys
• The Other Two
• Pose
• Russian Doll
• Schitt's Creek
• Shrill
• Succession
• Surviving R. Kelly
• Unbelievable
• Undone
• Watchmen
• When They See Us

Jason Parham: The 7 Best Albums of 2019, as published by Wired, in alphabetical order

[see also 2022 • 2021]

• Apollo XXI
  Steve Lacy
• Bandana
  Freddie Gibbs & Madlib
• IGOR
  Tyler, The Creator
• Para Mi
  Cuco
• Something Like a War
  Kindness
• When I Get Home
  Solange
• When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?
  Billie Eilish

Honorable Mentions

• All Mirrors
  Angel Olsen
• Father of the Bride
  Vampire Weekend
• Homecoming: The Live Album
  Beyoncé
• Jaime
  Brittany Howard
• KIRK
  DaBaby
• Magdalene
  FKA twigs
• Norman Fucking Rockwell!
  Lana Del Rey
• Over It
  Summer Walker
• This Is How You Smile
  Helado Negro

The Atlantic: The 15 Best Books of 2019

[see also 2023 • 2022 • 2021]

• The Old Drift
  Namwali Serpell
• Music

  A Subversive History
  Ted Gioia
• Say Nothing

  A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
  Patrick Radden Keefe
• Trust Exercise
  Susan Choi
• Night Boat to Tangier
  Kevin Barry
• The Topeka School
  Ben Lerner
• Lost Children Archive
  Valeria Luiselli
• She Said

  Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement
  Jodi Kantor & Megan Twohey
• EEG
  Daša Drndic
• In the Dream House
  Carmen Maria Machado
• Mostly Dead Things
  Kristen Arnett
• Three Women
  Lisa Taddeo
• Lot
  Bryan Washington
• Meander, Spiral, Explode

  Design and Pattern in Narrative
  Jane Alison
• Wrote For Luck

  Selected Lyrics
  Shaun Ryder

No Depression: Favorite Roots Music Albums of 2019

[see also 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2018 • 2017 • 2016]

1. Songs Of Our Native Daughters
   Our Native Daughters
2. The Highwomen
   The Highwomen
3. Walk Through Fire
   Yola
4. When You're Ready
   Molly Tuttle
5. Sound & Fury
   Sturgill Simpson
6. Terms of Surrender
   Hiss Golden Messenger
7. Gold Past Life
   Fruit Bats
8. All Mirrors
   Angel Olsen
9. Country Squire
   Tyler Childers
10. Union
    Son Volt
11. Designer
    Aldous Harding
12. Wooh Dang
    Daniel Norgren
13. Tall, Dark, and Handsome
    Delbert McClinton, Self-Made Men, Dana
14. While I'm Livin'
    Tanya Tucker
15. Colorado
    Neil Young
16. We Get By
    Mavis Staples
17. Desert Dove
    Michaela Anne
18. Breakdown On 20th Ave. South
    Buddy & Julie Miller
19. Crushing
    Julia Jacklin
20. White Noise / White Lines
    Kelsey Waldon

Anthony Fantano: Top 50 Albums of 2019, as aired on The Needle Drop

[see also 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2018 • 2017]

1. Charli
   Charli XCX
2. IGOR
   Tyler, The Creator
3. 2020
   Richard Dawson
4. Caligula
   Lingua Ignota
5. Girl with Basket of Fruit
   Xiu Xiu
6. GREY Area
   Little Simz
7. H.A.Q.Q.
   Liturgy
8. COIN COIN Chapter Four: Memphis
   Matana Roberts
9. Miami Memory
   Alex Cameron
10. Flamboyant
    Dorian Electra
11. Itekoma Hits
    Otoboke Beaver
12. Titanic Rising
    Weyes Blood
13. Infest The Rats' Nest
    King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard
14. When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?
    Billie Eilish
15. Schlagenheim
    black midi
16. Nothing Great About Britain
    slowthai
17. A Quiet Farwell, Twenty Sixteen to Twenty Eighteen
    Slauson Malone
18. Polyhymnia
    Yazz Ahmed
19. Return to Center
    Kirin J Callinan
20. Cuz I Love You
    Lizzo
21. Trust In The Lifeforce Of The Deep Mystery
    The Comet Is Coming
22. There Existed an Addiction to Blood
    clipping.
23. Plastic Anniversary
    Matmos
24. Guns
    Quelle Chris
25. Bandana
    Freddie Gibbs & Madlib
26. Homecoming: The Live Album
    Beyoncé
27. thank u, next
    Ariana Grande
28. Pang
    Caroline Polachek
29. Little Electric Chicken Heart
    Ana Frango Elétrico
30. The Fall of Hobo Johnson
    Hobo Johnson
31. Purple Mountains
    Purple Mountains
32. GINGER
    BROCKHAMPTON
33. Norman Fucking Rockwell!
    Lana Del Rey
34. uknowhatimsayin¿
    Danny Brown
35. All My Heroes Are Cornballs
    JPEGMAFIA
36. A Long Red Hot Los Angeles Summer Night
    Blu & Oh No
37. ZUU
    Denzel Curry
38. Sonic Citadel
    Lightning Bolt
39. The Origin of My Depression
    Uboa
40. Pyroclasts
    Sunn O)))
41. Hiding Places
    Billy Woods & Kenny Segal
42. Morbid Stuff
    PUP
43. Hi This Is Flume
    Flume
44. The Highwomen
    The Highwomen
45. [USA]
    Anamanaguchi
46. Malibu Ken
    Malibu Ken, Aesop Rock & TOBACCO
47. Braindrops
    Tropical Fuck Storm
48. Fever
    Megan Thee Stallion
49. 1000 gecs
    100 gecs
50. Eve
    Rapsody

Vadim Rizov: The Best Films of 2019, as submitted to the Sight & Sound Poll

[see also 2021 • 2018 • 2017 • 2012]

• The Plagiarists
  Peter Parlow
• Fourteen
  Dan Sallitt
• Collective
  Alexander Nanau
• High Flying Bird
  Steven Soderbergh
• Shakti
  Martín Rejtman
• Atlantis
  Valentyn Vasyanovych
• Give Me Liberty
  Kirill Mikhanovsky
• The Hottest August
  Brett Story
• So Pretty
  Jessie Jeffrey Dunn Rovinelli
• Just Don't Think I'll Scream
  Frank Beauvais

This list contributes to:

• Sight & Sound Poll: The 50 Best Films of 2019