Year-End Lists

GQ Magazine: The Best TV Shows of 2019

• The Other Two
• Dickinson
• Barry
• Fleabag
• Ramy
• Schitt's Creek
• The Good Fight
• PEN15
• Russian Doll
• Euphoria
• The OA
• Succession
• RuPaul's Drag Race UK
• Tuca & Bertie
• Chernobyl
• Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
• I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson
• Mrs. Fletcher
• Big Mouth

The Playlist: The Best TV Shows & Mini-Series of the Decade. See also their large number of honorable mentions.

[see also 2023 • 2018 • 2016]

1. Twin Peaks: The Return
2. Atlanta
3. The Americans
4. The Leftovers
5. Breaking Bad
6. Louie
7. Mad Men
8. The Knick
9. Fleabag
10. 30 Rock
11. Game of Thrones
12. Fargo
13. The Night Of
14. Mindhunter
15. BoJack Horseman
16. Veep
17. Hannibal
18. Justified
19. Better Call Saul
20. The Handmaid’s Tale
21. Girls
22. Killing Eve
23. The Crown
24. Enlightened
25. Insecure
26. Catastrophe
27. The Good Place
28. Rick and Morty
29. Bored to Death
30. Halt and Catch Fire
31. Togetherness
32. Looking
33. Key and Peele
34. Brooklyn Nine-Nine
35. Mildred Pierce
36. Barry
37. Chernobyl
38. Master of None
39. Transparent
40. Broad City
41. True Detective
42. When They See Us
43. I Love Dick
44. The Young Pope
45. The OA
46. Succession
47. Russian Doll
48. Top of the Lake
49. The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
50. Documentary Now!

Complex: The Best TV Shows of 2019

[see also 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2018]

1. Succession
2. Watchmen
3. Mr. Robot
4. Barry
5. Snowfall
6. Better Things
7. The Other Two
8. When They See Us
9. Euphoria
10. The Righteous Gemstones
11. Veep
12. Billions
13. Chernobyl
14. Pose
15. Russian Doll
16. The Act
17. Stranger Things
18. Mindhunter
19. Big Little Lies
20. Fosse/Verdon
21. Killing Eve
22. The Boys
23. Vida
24. Dead to Me
25. Glow
26. Dark
27. Ramy
28. South Side
29. Silicon Valley
30. BoJack Horseman

Emily Nussbaum: The Best TV Shows of 2019, as published by The New Yorker with an essay amusingly titled "I Love Top Ten Lists"

[see also 2018 • 2017]

• Fleabag
• Succession
• Los Espookys
• Watchmen
• BoJack Horseman
• Sherman's Showcase
• Jane the Virgin
• Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
• Dickinson
• Russian Doll
• I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson
• High Maintenance
• Unbelievable
• Couples Therapy
• PEN15
• Our Boys
• Evil
• Catastrophe
• Good Trouble
• Orange is the New Black

Honorable Mentions

• Tuca & Bertie
• Kim's Convenience
• Documentary Now!
• Glow
• Big Mouth
• Broad City
• Younger
• Brooklyn Nine-Nine
• The Other Two
• Shrill
• Fosse/Verdon
• Corporate
• South Side
• Veep
• BH90210

Alan Sepinwall: 50 Best TV Shows of the 2010s, as published by Rolling Stone

[see also 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2018 • 2017 • 2016]

1. The Leftovers
2. Parks and Recreation
3. Breaking Bad
4. BoJack Horseman
5. Fleabag
6. The Americans
7. Atlanta
8. Justified
9. Rectify
10. Better Things
11. Better Call Saul
12. Terriers
13. Community
14. Twin Peaks: The Return
15. Game of Thrones
16. Fargo
17. Hannibal
18. Halt and Catch Fire
19. Bob’s Burgers
20. Review
21. Orange is the New Black
22. Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
23. Brockmire
24. Brooklyn Nine-Nine
25. Watchmen
26. Boardwalk Empire
27. Veep
28. Broad City
29. Treme
30. Enlightened
31. The Good Place
32. Catastrophe
33. Key and Peele
34. The Deuce
35. The Legend of Korra
36. You’re the Worst
37. Master of None
38. Pose
39. Girls
40. Steven Universe
41. Mr. Robot
42. Transparent
43. Gravity Falls
44. Jane the Virgin
45. Parenthood
46. New Girl
47. Men of a Certain Age
48. Banshee
49. Baskets
50. The Good Wife

Willa Paskin: The 10 Best TV Shows of 2019, as published by Slate

[see also 2021 • 2020 • 2018 • 2017]

1. Fleabag
2. Succession
3. Watchmen
4. Russian Doll
5. Blown Away
6. Leaving Neverland
7. Couples Therapy
8. Catastrophe
9. Ramy
10. Glow

Kelly Lawler: 25 Best TV Shows of 2019, as published by USA Today

[see also 2023 • 2021 • 2020 • 2018 • 2017]

1. Fleabag
2. Leaving Neverland
3. Chernobyl
4. Back to Life
5. When They See Us
6. Watchmen
7. Dead to Me
8. Undone
9. Unbelievable
10. Shrill
11. The Good Place
12. What We Do in the Shadows
13. Superstore
14. The Crown
15. The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance
16. The Good Fight
17. Stumptown
18. Pose
19. A Black Lady Sketch Show
20. Veronica Mars
21. Stranger Things
22. Country Music
23. Living with Yourself
24. Evil
25. You

Sonia Saraiya: The 10 Best TV Shows of 2019, as published by Vanity Fair

[see also 2021 • 2020 • 2010s • 2018 • 2017 • 2016 • 2015]

1. When They See Us
2. Fleabag
3. Unbelievable
4. Chernobyl
5. Barry
6. Succession
7. The Other Two
8. Leaving Neverland
9. Undone
10. Dickinson

Jen Chaney: The Best TV Shows of 2019, as published by New York Magazine’s Vulture

[see also 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2018 • 2017]

1. Fleabag
2. Unbelievable
3. Barry
4. Watchmen
5. Succession
6. BoJack Horseman
7. Veep
8. A Black Lady Sketch Show
9. PEN15
10. You’re the Worst

Matt Zoller Seitz: The Best TV Shows of 2019, as published by New York Magazine’s Vulture

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

1. When They See Us
2. Better Things
3. Succession
4. Russian Doll
5. Euphoria
6. Fleabag
7. Kingdom
8. The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance
9. Deadwood: The Movie
10. Sherman's Showcase
10. Documentary Now!