Year-End Lists

Darren Franich: The 10 Best TV Shows of 2022, as published by Entertainment Weekly

[see also 2020 • 2010s • 2019 • 2018]

1. Better Call Saul
2. Primal
3. We Own This City
4. Barry
5. Players
6. Evil
7. This Fool
8. Below Deck: Sailing Yacht
9. The Bear
10. jeen-yuhs: A Kanye Trilogy

ScreenCrush: The Best TV Shows of 2022

[see also 2021]

1. The Rehearsal
2. Severance
3. The Bear
4. Better Call Saul
5. Reservation Dogs
6. Hacks
7. Andor
8. The White Lotus
9. Abbott Elementary
10. Stranger Things

BuzzFeed: Best TV Shows of 2022

[see also 2023 • 2021 • 2010s]

1. The Bear
2. Severance
3. Abbott Elementary
4. Better Call Saul
5. Reservation Dogs
6. Barry
7. Derry Girls
8. Dead to Me
9. Anne Rice's Interview with the Vampire
10. The Dropout
11. Our Flag Means Death
12. Pachinko
13. Stranger Things
14. Heartstopper
15. A League of Their Own
16. The Summer I Turned Pretty
17. The White Lotus, season 2
18. Atlanta
19. Ghosts
20. House of the Dragon
21. For All Mankind
22. The Sex Lives of College Girls
23. Bad Sisters
24. Hacks
25. Euphoria
26. Ms. Marvel
27. Andor
28. Peaky Blinders
29. What We Do in the Shadows
30. From Scratch
31. Peacemaker

Vanity Fair: The 23 Best TV Shows of 2022, in alphabetical order

[see also 2023]

• Abbott Elementary
• Acapulco
• The Afterparty
• Andor
• Bad Sisters
• The Bear
• Euphoria
• For All Mankind
• Heartstopper
• Industry
• Anne Rice's Interview with the Vampire
• Pachinko
• The Real Housewives of Potomac
• The Rehearsal
• Reservation Dogs
• Severance
• Slow Horses
• Starstruck
• Star Trek: Strange New Worlds
• This Is Going to Hurt
• The Watcher
• Wednesday
• The White Lotus

Angie Han: The 10 Best TV Shows of 2022, as published by The Hollywood Reporter

[see also 2023 • 2021]

1. Better Call Saul
2. Pachinko
3. Somebody Somewhere
4. Reservation Dogs
5. Mo
6. The Rehearsal
7. This Is Going to Hurt
8. High School
9. Severance
10. Rap Sh!t

Honorable mentions (in alphabetical order)

• The Afterparty
• Andor
• The Bear
• The Boys
• Los Espookys
• Heartstopper
• Anne Rice's Interview with the Vampire
• Our Flag Means Death
• Sort Of
• Under the Banner of Heaven

Daniel Fienberg: The 10 Best TV Shows of 2022, as published by The Hollywood Reporter

[see also 2023 • 2021]

1. Reservation Dogs
2. Better Call Saul
3. My Brilliant Friend
4. The U.S. and the Holocaust
5. Better Things
6. Barry
7. Atlanta
8. Pachinko
9. We Need to Talk About Cosby
10. Andor

Honorable mentions (in alphabetical order)

• Evil
• For All Mankind
• High School
• Mo
• The Rehearsal
• Severance
• Sherwood
• Somebody Feed Phil
• This Is Going to Hurt
• The White Lotus

Uproxx: The Best Television Shows Of 2022, a list "created with care, and also with math"

[see also 2023 • 2020 • 2018]

1. Better Call Saul
2. The Bear
3. Barry
4. Severance
5. The White Lotus
6. What We Do in the Shadows
7. Atlanta
8. Andor
9. House of the Dragon
10. The Righteous Gemstones
11. Hacks
12. Reservation Dogs
13. The Afterparty
13. Abbott Elementary

Ben Travers: The Best TV Shows of 2022, as published by IndieWire

[see also 2023 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019]

1. The Rehearsal
2. Severance
3. What We Do in the Shadows
4. Undone
5. Barry
6. Better Call Saul
7. Los Espookys
8. Bad Sisters
9. Better Things
10. Andor
11. Atlanta
12. The Good Fight
13. Hacks
14. Pachinko
15. The Righteous Gemstones

Honorable Mentions

• Derry Girls
• Documentary Now!
• Gaslit
• High School
• Mo
• Our Flag Means Death
• Primal
• Somebody Somewhere
• Tuca & Bertie
• The White Lotus

Noel Murray: The Best TV of 2022, as published by Chron after an introduction that highlights some great shows from 2021 that will "have to function as the Honorable Mentions" in 2022

[see also 2020 • 2018 • 2017]

1. Andor
2. Reservation Dogs
3. Better Call Saul
4. Star Trek: Strange New Worlds
5. Evil
6. The Bear
7. Severance
8. What We Do in the Shadows
9. Irma Vep
10. Bluey

Honorable Mentions

• Abbott Elementary
• All Creatures Great and Small
• For All Mankind
• Girls5eva
• Ms. Marvel
• Stranger Things
• Young Sheldon
• Killing It
• The Resort
• Sherman's Showcase

Daniel D’Addario: The Best TV Shows of 2022, as published by Variety

[see also 2021 • 2018 • 2016]

1. Euphoria
2. The Girl from Plainville
3. The Andy Warhol Diaries
4. The Dropout
5. Tokyo Vice
6. The Vow, Part 2
7. Barry
8. WeCrashed
9. The Real World Homecoming: New Orleans
10. And Just Like That...

Honorable mentions (in alphabetical order)

• Atlanta
• Better Call Saul
• Irma Vep
• Pam & Tommy
• Somebody Somewhere
• The Staircase
• We Need to Talk About Cosby