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2021
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Yellowjackets

The Best Television Shows of 2021 Scout Tafoya

Yellowjackets

My Top 11 TV Shows of 2021 Maureen Ryan

The Underground Railroad - Barry Jenkins

The Best TV Shows of 2021 Vox: Emily St. James

Succession

The Best TV Shows of 2021 Gothamist: Ben Yakas

Baking It

The 30 Best TV Shows of 2021 BuzzFeed

The Top 10 TV Shows of 2021 Slate: Willa Paskin

The 25 Best TV Shows of 2021 A.V. Club

The White Lotus - Mike White

Best Television of 2021 Passerby

The Best TV Shows of 2021 ScreenCrush

It's a Sin

The 50 Best TV Shows of 2021 Guardian

The Best TV of 2021 New Statesman: Rachel Cooke

For All Mankind

Best TV Shows of 2021 USA Today: Kelly Lawler

Only Murders in the Building

The 13 Best TV Shows of 2021 Los Angeles Times: Robert Lloyd

Reservation Dogs

The 10 Best TV Shows of 2021 Hollywood Reporter: Angie Han

The Underground Railroad - Barry Jenkins

The 10 Best TV Shows of 2021 Hollywood Reporter: Daniel Fienberg

The 25 Best TV Shows of 2021 Little White Lies

The 11 Best TV Shows of 2021 Los Angeles Times: Lorraine Ali

The Underground Railroad - Barry Jenkins

The Best TV of 2021 Vulture: Matt Zoller Seitz

We Are Lady Parts

The Best TV of 2021 Vulture: Roxana Hadadi

Station Eleven

The Best TV of 2021 Vulture: Kathryn VanArendonk

We Are Lady Parts

The Best TV of 2021 Vulture: Jen Chaney

The Great British Bake Off

The Best TV Shows of 2021 Polygon

Only Murders in the Building

The 16 Best TV Shows of 2021 Atlantic

The Lady and the Dale - Nick Cammilleri & Zackary Drucker

Best of TV 2021 Washington Post: Inkoo Kang

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