Year-End Lists

Complex: The Best TV Shows of 2020

[see also 2022 • 2021 • 2019 • 2018]

1. Fargo
2. Better Call Saul
3. Curb Your Enthusiasm
4. I May Destroy You
5. Better Things
6. Insecure
7. Dead to Me
8. Ozark
9. Normal People
10. Gangs of London
11. Lovecraft Country
12. The Boys
13. ZeroZeroZero
14. Ramy
15. Vida
16. Devs
17. The Outsider
18. Narcos: Mexico
19. P-Valley
20. Dare Me

Decider: The 19 Best TV Shows of 2020

[see also 2021 • 2019 • 2018]

1. Ted Lasso
2. What We Do in the Shadows
3. Dave
4. High Fidelity
5. Raised by Wolves
6. The Haunting of Bly Manor
7. The Baby-Sitters Club
8. Never Have I Ever
9. Normal People
10. Better Call Saul
11. Search Party
12. Schitt's Creek
13. The Mandalorian
14. PEN15
15. Teenage Bounty Hunters
16. BoJack Horseman
17. Cheer
18. I May Destroy You
19. ZeroZeroZero

Margaret Lyons: The Best Shows That Ended in 2020, as published by The New York Times

[see also 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2019 • 2018 • 2017]

• BoJack Horseman
• Brockmire
• Corporate
• Doc McStuffins
• The Good Place
• Last Chance U
• Lenox Hill
• Schitt's Creek
• Teenage Bounty Hunters
• Vida

James Poniewozik: Best TV Shows of 2020, as published by The New York Times

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

• Better Call Saul
• Better Things
• City So Real
• The Good Lord Bird
• I May Destroy You
• Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken!
• Mrs. America
• Normal People
• PEN15
• P-Valley
• What We Do in the Shadows

Judy Berman: The 10 Best TV Shows of 2020, as published by Time Magazine

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

1. I May Destroy You
2. Better Call Saul
3. Immigration Nation
4. Mrs. America
5. The Queen's Gambit
6. City So Real
7. Betty
8. P-Valley
9. BoJack Horseman
10. Desus & Mero

Ben Travers: The Best TV Series of 2020, as published by IndieWire

[see also 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2019]

1. Better Things
2. I May Destroy You
3. What We Do in the Shadows
4. Normal People
5. BoJack Horseman
6. Better Call Saul
7. Mrs. America
8. We Are Who We Are
9. P-Valley
10. The Baby-Sitters Club

Honorable Mentions

• PEN15
• Ted Lasso
• Ramy
• Never Have I Ever
• Curb Your Enthusiasm
• Devs
• The New Pope
• The Good Lord Bird