Year-End Lists

Kelly Lawler: The 15 Best TV Shows of 2020, as published by USA Today

[see also 2023 • 2021 • 2019 • 2018 • 2017]

1. I May Destroy You
2. The Great
3. What We Do in the Shadows
4. Upload
5. BoJack Horseman
6. Schitt's Creek
7. The Queen's Gambit
8. Ted Lasso
9. Ramy
10. Never Have I Ever
11. The Good Fight
12. The Baby-Sitters Club
13. Quiz
14. Cheer
15. Your Honor

David Bianculli: Best TV of 2020, as aired on NPR’s Fresh Air

[see also 2019 • 2018 • 2017]

1. Schitt's Creek
2. Better Call Saul
3. Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
4. The Good Place
5. Hamilton
6. Lovecraft Country
7. Fargo
8. Curb Your Enthusiasm
9. The Queen's Gambit
10. The Last Dance

Hank Stuever: Best TV of 2020, as published by The Washington Post

[see also 2019 • 2018 • 2017 • 2016]

1. I May Destroy You
2. Normal People
3. The Democratic National Convention
4. Unorthodox
5. The Crown
6. The Vow
7. Mrs. America
8. Perry Mason
9. PEN15
10. This Is Us

Honorable mentions

• Cheer
• Fargo
• The Go-Go's
• P-Valley
• Love Is Blind
• I'll Be Gone in the Dark
• Hillary
• The Baby-Sitters Club
• Hightown
• The Good Place

Maggie Fremont: The Best TV Shows of 2020, as published by Shondaland

[see also 2010s • 2019]

• The Baby-Sitters Club
• Better Call Saul
• City So Real
• The Crown
• The Good Fight
• Dead to Me
• I May Destroy You
• Insecure
• The Last Dance
• Mrs. America
• Never Have I Ever
• The Queen's Gambit
• Schitt's Creek
• Unorthodox
• What We Do in the Shadows

LaToya Ferguson: The Best TV Shows of 2020, as published by ScreenCrush

[see also 2019 • 2018]

1. I May Destroy You
2. Better Call Saul
3. Ted Lasso
4. BoJack Horseman
5. Mythic Quest: Raven's Banquet
6. Lovecraft Country
7. What We Do in the Shadows
8. Saved by the Bell
9. The Last Dance
10. A.P. Bio

Honorable Mentions (In Alphabetical Order)

• Black Monday
• Brockmire
• Evil
• Feel Good
• The Great
• High Fidelity
• Hightown
• P-Valley
• PEN15
• The Queen's Gambit
• Ramy
• Search Party
• Teenage Bounty Hunters
• Unorthodox

Alan Sepinwall: The 20 Best TV Shows of 2020, as published by Rolling Stone

[see also 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2010s • 2019 • 2018 • 2017 • 2016]

1. Better Call Saul
2. Lovecraft Country
3. Brockmire
4. I May Destroy You
5. The Good Lord Bird
6. Normal People
7. What We Do in the Shadows
8. We Are Who We Are
9. How To with John Wilson
10. PEN15
11. Bluey
12. Better Things
13. My Brilliant Friend
14. Dave
15. The Great
16. BoJack Horseman
17. High Fidelity
18. Ramy
19. The Plot Against America
20. Grand Army

Sight & Sound Magazine: The Best Television Series of 2020, the results of the Sight & Sound TV Poll

[see also 2021 • 2019]

1. I May Destroy You
2. Normal People
3. The Queen's Gambit
4. Devs
5. I Hate Suzie
6. Ozark
7. Des
8. The Plot Against America
9. Quiz
10. Unorthodox
11. Mrs. America
12. Lovecraft Country
13. Little Fires Everywhere
14. Better Call Saul
15. Adult Material
16. The Salisbury Poisonings
17. The Beach
18. Staged
19. The Outsider
20. Isolation Stories

The Guardian: The 50 Best TV Show of 2020

[see also 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2019]

1. I May Destroy You
2. I Hate Suzie
3. Small Axe
4. Normal People
5. Once Upon a Time in Iraq
6. Quiz
7. The Last Dance
8. This Country
9. The Queen's Gambit
10. Ghosts
11. Unorthodox
12. Mrs. America
13. The Crown
14. Better Call Saul
15. Adult Material
16. Feel Good
17. Schitt's Creek
18. Des
19. Inside No. 9
20. PEN15
21. Lovecraft Country
22. Tiger King
23. Ramy
24. The Rise of the Murdoch Dynasty
25. Dracula
26. The Good Place
27. The Deuce
28. BoJack Horseman
29. The Trip to Greece
30. Curb Your Enthusiasm
31. Devs
32. Cheer
33. Industry
34. Gangs of London
35. The Mandalorian
36. Sex Education
37. Race Across the World
38. Antiviral Wipe
39. Dominic Cummings in the Rose Garden
40. The Boys
41. The Undoing
42. My Brilliant Friend
43. The Third Day
44. Insecure
45. In My Skin
46. Us
47. Save Me Too
48. Belsen: Our Story
49. McMillions
50. The Salisbury Poisonings

Kevin Fallon: The 20 Best TV Shows of 2020, as published by The Daily Beast

[see also 2022]

1. I May Destroy You
2. PEN15
3. What We Do in the Shadows
4. How To with John Wilson
5. The Real Housewives of Potomac
6. Unorthodox
7. The Great
8. P-Valley
9. Ted Lasso
10. The Baby-Sitters Club
10. Saved by the Bell
11. The Good Fight
12. Better Things
13. Schitt's Creek
14. Insecure
15. Mrs. America
16. Normal People
17. Jeopardy!
18. The Queen's Gambit
19. Search Party
20. The Crown

Barack Obama: Favorite TV Shows of 2020, as posted to Twitter

• Better Call Saul
• The Queen's Gambit
• I May Destroy You
• The Boys
• The Good Lord Bird
• Devs
• The Last Dance
• Mrs. America
• The Good Place
• City So Real