Year-End Lists

Doreen St. Félix: The Best TV Shows of 2020, as published by The New Yorker in no particular order

[see also 2021]

• The American Barbecue Showdown
• Ramy
• I May Destroy You
• Harley Quinn
• City So Real
• Teenage Bounty Hunters
• Normal People
• The Plot Against America
• P-Valley
• How To with John Wilson
• Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken!
• The Good Lord Bird
• Veneno
• Doc McStuffins

Caroline Framke: The Best TV Shows of 2020, as published by Variety and presented chronologically

[see also 2022 • 2021 • 2018]

• BoJack Horseman
• Mythic Quest: Raven's Banquet
• Steven Universe Future
• Harley Quinn
• Betty
• I May Destroy You
• Immigration Nation
• Ted Lasso
• PEN15
• The Amber Ruffin Show
• City So Real
• How To with John Wilson
• I Hate Suzie

Honorable mentions (also chronological)

• Dare Me
• High Fidelity
• Feel Good
• My Brilliant Friend
• Normal People
• The Great
• Taste the Nation with Padma Lakshmi
• P-Valley
• All or Nothing: Tottenham Hotspur
• The Queen's Gambit
• The Crown
• Euphoria: Trouble Don't Last Always

Robert Lloyd: The 10 Best TV Shows of 2020, as published by The Los Angeles Times

[see also 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2019 • 2018]

• Betty
• The Midnight Gospel
• Ted Lasso
• Earth to Ned
• The Great
• Belgravia
• Briarpatch
• Saved by the Bell
• City So Real
• The Queen's Gambit
• Gentefied
• Close Enough

Lorraine Ali: The 10 best TV shows of 2020, as published by The Los Angeles Times

[see also 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2019 • 2018]

• Never Have I Ever
• Little America
• I May Destroy You
• Upload
• Ramy
• Dead to Me
• McMillions
• The Vow
• The Boys
• The Good Place
• Sarah Cooper

Willa Paskin: The Best TV of 2020, as published by Slate

[see also 2021 • 2019 • 2018 • 2017]

1. I May Destroy You
2. City So Real
3. Ted Lasso
4. The Great Pottery Throw Down
5. Mrs. America
6. The Good Lord Bird
7. The Queen's Gambit
8. Bluey
9. Cheer
10. Teenage Bounty Hunters

Uproxx: The Best TV Shows of 2020

[see also 2023 • 2022 • 2018]

1. What We Do in the Shadows
2. Ted Lasso
3. Better Call Saul
3. Lovecraft Country
5. How To with John Wilson
5. The Queen's Gambit
7. I May Destroy You
7. The Crown
9. The Boys
10. Harley Quinn
10. The Umbrella Academy
10. Betty

Sonia Saraiya: The 10 Best TV Shows of 2020, as published by Vanity Fair

[see also 2021 • 2010s • 2019 • 2018 • 2017 • 2016 • 2015]

1. How To with John Wilson
2. The Crown
3. The Mandalorian
4. Small Axe
5. Hamilton
5. What the Constitution Means to Me
5. David Byrne's American Utopia
6. The Plot Against America
7. NBA basketball
8. Better Call Saul
9. Primal
10. Ramy

And just for fun, the next 10

11. I Hate Suzie
12. PEN15
13. Unorthodox
14. The Good Lord Bird
15. The Eric Andre Show
16. We Are Who We Are
17. Mrs. America
18. My Brilliant Friend
19. I May Destroy You
20. The Queen's Gambit

Esquire: Best TV Shows of 2020

[see also 2023 • 2010s • 2018 • 2017]

• The Undoing
• The Mandalorian
• The Great British Bake Off
• The Queen's Gambit
• I Know This Much Is True
• Away
• PEN15
• Taste the Nation with Padma Lakshmi
• Lovecraft Country
• Mythic Quest: Raven's Banquet
• Dead to Me
• I May Destroy You
• I'll Be Gone in the Dark
• Perry Mason
• The Great
• Cheer
• The Last Dance
• Normal People
• What We Do in the Shadows
• We're Here
• Upload
• Mrs. America
• Tiger King
• Dave
• Devs
• The Good Place
• Schitt's Creek
• Hunters
• The Outsider
• The Circle

Darren Franich: Best TV Shows of 2020, as published by Entertainment Weekly

[see also 2022 • 2010s • 2019 • 2018]

1. Better Call Saul
2. The Midnight Gospel
3. PEN15
4. The Plot Against America
5. I May Destroy You
6. The Good Fight
7. We Are Who We Are
8. What We Do in the Shadows
9. Desus & Mero
10. Harley Quinn

Kristen Baldwin: Best TV Shows of 2020, as published by Entertainment Weekly

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

1. Better Call Saul
2. Ted Lasso
3. The Vow
4. The Crown
5. I Hate Suzie
6. Better Things
7. The Good Fight
8. Brooklyn Nine-Nine
9. Never Have I Ever
10. Search Party