Year-End Lists

Darren Franich: Best TV Shows of 2019, as published by Entertainment Weekly

[see also 2022 • 2020 • 2010s • 2018]

1. The Good Fight
2. PEN15
3. Primal
4. Watchmen
5. Desus & Mero
6. Lodge 49
7. BoJack Horseman
8. Ramy
9. Below Deck Mediterranean
10. Perpetual Grace, LTD

Kristen Baldwin: Best TV Shows of 2019, as published by Entertainment Weekly

[see also 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2010s • 2018]

1. Perpetual Grace, LTD
2. Watchmen
3. Veep
4. The Good Fight
5. Fleabag
6. Los Espookys
7. Better Things
8. Succession
9. After Life
10. The Other Two

Maggie Fremont: The Best TV Shows of 2019, as published by ScreenCrush

[see also 2020 • 2010s]

1. Watchmen
2. Fleabag
3. Russian Doll
4. Schitt's Creek
5. Succession
6. The Good Fight
7. When They See Us
8. Catastrophe
8. This Way Up
9. Dark
10. Stranger Things

Ten More to Consider (in alphabetical order)

• Brooklyn Nine-Nine
• Chernobyl
• The Crown
• Dead to Me
• Evil
• The Good Place
• Good Trouble
• PEN15
• Shrill
• Unbelievable

Slant Magazine: The 25 Best TV Shows of 2019

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

1. Fleabag
2. Succession
3. Primal
4. Barry
5. Mindhunter
6. Better Things
7. Russian Doll
8. Chernobyl
9. Too Old to Die Young
10. Ramy
11. BoJack Horseman
12. I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson
13. Undone
14. Dear White People
15. Mob Psycho 100
16. Watchmen
17. The Deuce
18. Evil
19. Bob’s Burgers
20. Superstore
21. Euphoria
22. Big Mouth
23. On Becoming a God in Central Florida
24. Years and Years
25. City on a Hill

Kristen Baldwin: The Best TV Shows of the Decade, as published by Entertainment Weekly

[see also 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2018]

1. The Leftovers
2. The Good Fight
3. Mad Men
4. American Crime Story
5. Better Things
6. Veep
7. Orange is the New Black
8. Brooklyn Nine-Nine
9. The Fall
10. The Comeback
11. Better Call Saul
12. Key and Peele
13. Rectify
14. Parks and Recreation
15. Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath

Darren Franich: The Best TV Shows of the Decade, as published by Entertainment Weekly

[see also 2022 • 2020 • 2019 • 2018]

1. Mad Men
2. Atlanta
3. Twin Peaks: The Return
4. Adventure Time
5. Community
6. The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story
7. The Good Fight
8. Hannibal
9. BoJack Horseman
10. The Trip
11. American Horror Story: Asylum
12. Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
13. Justified
14. Insecure
15. Black Mirror

Alan Sepinwall: 20 Best TV Shows of 2019, as published by Rolling Stone

[see also 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2010s • 2018 • 2017 • 2016]

1. Fleabag
2. Watchmen
3. Russian Doll
4. Better Things
5. Unbelievable
6. Chernobyl
7. Lodge 49
8. Ramy
9. Pose
10. David Makes Man
11. When They See Us
12. PEN15
13. Brockmire
14. Tuca & Bertie
15. Catastrophe
16. Los Espookys
17. Mr Inbetween
18. Fosse/Verdon
19. Sex Education
20. Warrior

LaToya Ferguson: The Best TV of 2019, as published by The A.V. Club

[see also 2020 • 2018]

1. The Other Two
2. Lucifer
3. Succession
4. Legacies
5. On Becoming a God in Central Florida
6. Fleabag
7. Legends of Tomorrow
8. Sherman's Showcase
9. The Righteous Gemstones
10. Barry
11. This Way Up
12. You’re the Worst
13. The Good Fight
14. Brockmire
15. Whiskey Cavalier

Hank Stuever: Best TV shows of 2019, as published by The Washington Post

[see also 2020 • 2018 • 2017 • 2016]

1. Watchmen
2. When They See Us
3. Unbelievable
4. Succession
5. Gentleman Jack
6. Fleabag
7. This Is Us
8. Chernobyl
9. Dead to Me
10. Leaving Neverland

On a longer list, I'd include …

• Barry
• Catch-22
• College Behind Bars
• Country Music
• The Crown
• The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance
• Dickinson
• Evil
• Fosse/Verdon
• The Good Place
• Mrs. Fletcher
• PEN15
• Pose
• Ramy
• Russian Doll
• Servant
• Veep
• Who Killed Garrett Phillips?
• Years and Years

The A.V. Club: The 25 Best TV Shows of 2019

[see also 2021 • 2020 • 2010s • 2018 • 2017 • 2016]

1. Fleabag
2. Watchmen
3. Russian Doll
4. Succession
5. Barry
6. The Good Place
7. BoJack Horseman
8. Lodge 49
9. When They See Us
10. Chernobyl
11. The Other Two
12. Undone
13. Pose
14. Unbelievable
15. I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson
16. Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
17. Documentary Now!
18. Tuca & Bertie
19. Mr. Robot
19. The Righteous Gemstones
20. One Day at a Time
21. The Mandalorian
22. Stranger Things
23. Schitt's Creek
24. You’re the Worst
25. Fosse/Verdon