Year-End Lists

Lauren Passell: The 13 Best New Podcasts of 2022, as published by Lifehacker

[see also 2023]

• Mother Country Radicals
• Bone Valley
• Will Be Wild
• Stolen: Surviving St. Michael's
• Wild Boys
• Alabama Astronaut
• Lizzy Cooperman's In Your Hands
• Normal Gossip
• Things Fell Apart
• In The Scenes Behind Plain Sight
• Into the Depths
• Burn Wild
• A Tradition of Violence

Esquire: The 30 Best Podcasts of 2022

[see also 2018]

• Choosing Sides: F1
• Ghost Church by Jamie Loftus
• HeidiWorld: The Heidi Fleiss Story
• Slow Burn: Roe v. Wade
• Anything Goes with Emma Chamberlain
• The Town with Matthew Belloni
• Armchair Expert
• Call Her Daddy
• The Old Man and the Three with JJ Redick and Tommy Alter
• Modern Love
• Sounds Like A Cult
• State of Ukraine
• Don’t Let This Flop
• Stolen: Surviving St. Michael's
• The Dropout: Elizabeth Holmes on Trial
• Why Won't You Date Me? with Nicole Byer
• Sweet Bobby
• The Trojan Horse Affair
• Black Girl Songbook
• Today, Explained
• The Receipts Podcast
• Stuff You Missed in History Class
• The Daily
• Normal Gossip
• The Happiness Lab
• Celebrity Memoir Book Club
• Morbid
• Stuff You Should Know
• Ringer Food
• Against the Rules

Reggie Ugwu: Best Podcasts of 2022, as published by The New York Times

[see also 2023 • 2021]

• Articles of Interest: American Ivy
• I Was Never There
• Legacy of Speed
• Not Lost
• Pivot
• Reveal: After Ayotzinapa
• Rumble Strip
• Unexplainable
• Vibe Check
• Welcome to Provincetown

Nicholas Quah: The Best Podcasts of 2022, as published by New York Magazine’s Vulture

[see also 2023 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2018]

1. Dead Eyes, "Tom"
2. Normal Gossip
3. The Trojan Horse Affair
4. Mother Country Radicals
5. The 11th, "His Saturn Return"
6. HeidiWorld: The Heidi Fleiss Story
7. The Prince
8. The True Crime of Your Frozen Death, "Imaginary Advice"
9. Sounds Like A Cult

Honorable Mentions (by U.S. release date)

• Frog of the Week
• This Is Dating
• Sorry About The Kid
• Wild Boys
• Authentic: The Story Of Tablo
• Let's Make A Sci-Fi
• Crypto Island
• The Town with Matthew Belloni
• The Superhero Complex
• Truthers: Tiffany Dover Is Dead*
• Ghost Church by Jamie Loftus
• Will Be Wild
• Deliver Us From Ervil
• Not Lost
• Slow Burn: Roe v. Wade
• The Draymond Green Show, "TGame 3"
• Choosing Sides: F1
• My Mother Made Me
• Shameless Acquisition Target
• Crooked City: Youngstown, OH
• The Walk Home
• Death of an Artist: The Ana Mendieta and Carl Andre Story
• We Were Three

The Economist: The Best Podcasts of 2022

[see also 2023]

• Can I tell you a secret?
• Death of an Artist: The Ana Mendieta and Carl Andre Story
• Ghost Church by Jamie Loftus
• How We Survive
• Not Lost
• The Run-Up
• Unreal: A Critical History of Reality TV
• Wild Boys
• Will Be Wild
• We Were Three

Eliana Dockterman: The 10 Best Podcasts of 2022, as published by Time Magazine along with a recommended starter episode for each one.

[see also 2023 • 2021 • 2020]

1. Normal Gossip
2. The Superhero Complex
3. The Trojan Horse Affair
4. This Is Dating
5. Borderline Salty
6. Scam Goddess
7. The Tennis Podcast
8. Short History Of…
9. Ruined
10. Valley Heat

Vulture Podcast Survey: The Best Podcasts of 2021, as published by New York Magazine, a poll of over 150 podcast creators, producers, and hosts

[see also 2023 • 2022]

1. Maintenance Phase
2. Storytime with Seth Rogen
3. 9/12
4. Heavyweight
5. You're Wrong About...
6. The Line
7. The Midnight Miracle
8. Anything for Selena
9. The Experiment
10. The Ezra Klein Show
11. The Just Enough Family
12. Dead Eyes
13. Aack Cast
14. Through The Cracks
15. Who? Weekly

Some More Interesting Picks

• Drink Champs
• StraightioLab
• 60 Songs That Explain the '90s

The Guardian: The 20 Best Podcasts of 2021

1. Sweet Bobby
2. Welcome to Your Fantasy
3. Comfort Eating with Grace Dent
4. Slow Burn
5. Day X
6. Unread
7. Grounded with Louis Theroux
8. The Daily
9. Things Fell Apart
10. The Witness: In His Own Words
11. The Battersea Poltergeist
12. The 33 ⅓ Podcast
13. Prison Break
14. The Line
15. Death at the Wing
16. Dear Me
17. Teach Me A Lesson
18. Pieces of Britney
19. The Bias Diagnosis
20. Harsh Reality: The Story of Miriam Rivera

The Atlantic: The 50 Best Podcasts of 2021, selected by Laura Jane Standley and Eric McQuade

[see also 2022 • 2020 • 2019 • 2018]

1. 9/12
2. The Midnight Miracle
3. According to Need
4. Believe Her
5. The Line
6. My Fugitive
7. Mississippi Goddam: The Ballad of Billey Joe
8. Bent by Nature
9. Embedded: Capital Gazette
10. Because of Anita
11. The Ezra Klein Show
12. Blindspot: Tulsa Burning
13. Radiotopia Presents
14. Loud
15. The Improvement Association
16. This Land
17. La Brega
18. Meltdown
19. Hot White Heist
20. Odessa
21. White Hot Hate
22. 70 Over 70
23. The Messenger
24. Wild
25. The Just Enough Family
26. Southlake
27. Blind Landing
28. 365 Stories I Want To Tell You Before We Both Die
29. Fiasco: Benghazi
30. Nice Try!: Interior
31. Exit Scam
32. Spectacle
33. Not Past It
34. The Apology Line
35. Making Gay History: Coming of Age During the AIDS Crisis
36. Smoke Screen: The Sellout
37. Forever is a Long Time
38. Suave
39. The Sporkful: Mission Impastable
40. Algorithm
41. Anything for Selena
42. Storytime with Seth Rogen
43. Going for Broke with Ray Suarez
44. Princess of South Beach
45. Gene and Roger
46. The History of Sketch Comedy
47. The Flamethrowers
48. Strangeland
49. Dish City
50. Toxic: The Britney Spears Story

Entertainment Weekly: The 10 Best Podcasts of 2021

[see also 2018]

• Twenty Thousand Hertz
• Once Upon a Time… at Bennington College
• The Dropout: Elizabeth Holmes on Trial
• Absolutely Not
• Love is a Crime
• Hell of Presidents
• The Plot Thickens: Lucy
• Marvel's Wastelanders: Old Man Star-Lord
• Cerebro
• Black Girl Songbook