Year-End Lists

Kelly Lawler: Best TV Shows of 2021, as published by USA Today

[see also 2023 • 2020 • 2019 • 2018 • 2017]

1. For All Mankind
2. The Underground Railroad
3. It's a Sin
4. Hacks
5. We Are Lady Parts
6. The White Lotus
7. Ted Lasso
8. Squid Game
9. Mare of Easttown
10. Maid
11. Reservation Dogs
12. Only Murders in the Building
13. Evil
14. What We Do in the Shadows
15. Girls5eva
16. Shrill
17. Everything's Gonna Be Okay
18. The Wonder Years
19. Top Chef

Robert Lloyd: The 13 Best TV Shows of 2021, as published by The Los Angeles Times, including only programs that debuted in the past year

[see also 2023 • 2022 • 2020 • 2019 • 2018]

• Reservation Dogs
• Only Murders in the Building
• Maya and the Three
• Kid Cosmic
• 100 Foot Wave
• Naomi Osaka
• The White Lotus
• Hacks
• Big Shot
• The Upshaws
• Station Eleven
• Painting with John
• The Beatles: Get Back

Angie Han: The 10 Best TV Shows of 2021, as published by The Hollywood Reporter

[see also 2023 • 2022]

1. Reservation Dogs
2. We Are Lady Parts
3. Succession
4. The Underground Railroad
5. For All Mankind
6. You
7. Swagger
8. The Other Two
9. Sort Of
10. Midnight Mass

Honorable mentions

• Blindspotting
• Hacks
• I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson
• It's a Sin
• Maid
• Mythic Quest
• Only Murders in the Building
• Squid Game
• What We Do in the Shadows
• The White Lotus

Daniel Fienberg: The 10 Best TV Shows of 2021, as published by The Hollywood Reporter

[see also 2023 • 2022]

1. The Underground Railroad
2. Succession
3. Reservation Dogs
4. The White Lotus
5. Exterminate All the Brutes
6. For All Mankind
7. Evil
8. The Great
9. Anna
10. We Are Lady Parts

Honorable mentions

• Big Mouth
• Dave
• Desus & Mero
• Hacks
• How To with John Wilson
• It's a Sin
• Last Chance U: Basketball
• Philly D.A.
• PEN15
• The Wonder Years

Little White Lies: The 25 Best TV Shows of 2021

[see also 2022 • 2019 • 2018]

1. Succession
2. The Underground Railroad
3. Hacks
4. Mare of Easttown
5. Dickinson
6. Starstruck
7. Only Murders in the Building
8. PEN15
9. It's a Sin
10. For All Mankind
11. The North Water
12. Reservation Dogs
13. The Great
14. The Other Two
15. Maid
16. Pretend It's a City
17. Ted Lasso
18. We Are Lady Parts
19. Betty
20. The White Lotus
21. WandaVision
22. Mythic Quest
23. Feel Good
24. Squid Game
25. The Handmaid’s Tale

Lorraine Ali: The 11 Best TV Shows of 2021, as published by The Los Angeles Times

[see also 2023 • 2022 • 2020 • 2019 • 2018]

• Reservation Dogs
• Hacks
• Only Murders in the Building
• We Are Lady Parts
• Yellowjackets
• Impeachment: American Crime Story
• The Underground Railroad
• Lupin
• WandaVision
• Allen v. Farrow
• Dickinson

Matt Zoller Seitz: The Best TV of 2021, as published by New York Magazine’s Vulture

[see also 2020 • 2019 • 2018 • 2017 • 2016]

1. The Underground Railroad
2. We Are the Brooklyn Saints
3. Squid Game
4. Succession
5. The Great
6. What We Do in the Shadows
7. Gangs of London
8. Reservation Dogs
9. Hacks
10. WandaVision

Roxana Hadadi: The Best TV of 2021, as published by New York Magazine’s Vulture

[see also 2023 • 2022]

1. We Are Lady Parts
2. The White Lotus
3. Mare of Easttown
4. The Underground Railroad
5. I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson
6. For All Mankind
7. Gangs of London
8. Midnight Mass
9. Only Murders in the Building
10. Reservation Dogs

Kathryn VanArendonk: The Best TV of 2021, as published by New York Magazine’s Vulture

[see also 2023 • 2022 • 2020 • 2019]

1. Station Eleven
2. Reservation Dogs
3. The Underground Railroad
4. Philly D.A.
5. All Creatures Great and Small
6. Dickinson
7. City of Ghosts
8. Succession
9. You
10. For All Mankind

Jen Chaney: The Best TV of 2021, as published by New York Magazine’s Vulture

[see also 2023 • 2022 • 2020 • 2019 • 2018 • 2017]

1. We Are Lady Parts
2. The White Lotus
3. The Other Two
4. WandaVision
5. Mare of Easttown
6. Evil
7. Hacks
8. The Underground Railroad
9. Work in Progress
10. Reservation Dogs