Year-End Lists

The Playlist: The 20 Best TV Shows Of 2023

[see also 2010s • 2018 • 2016]

1. Succession
2. Reservation Dogs
3. Beef
4. Barry
5. The Last of Us
6. The Bear
7. Silo
8. The Curse
9. Our Flag Means Death
10. Dead Ringers
11. Poker Face
12. Dark Winds
13. A Small Light
14. The Righteous Gemstones
15. What We Do in the Shadows
16. Fargo
17. Justified: City Primeval
18. Shrinking
19. Slow Horses
20. Full Circle

Honorable Mention Picks?

• Copenhagen Cowboy
• Abbott Elementary
• Somebody Somewhere
• Daisy Jones & the Six
• Platonic

Ben Travers: The Best TV Shows of 2023, as published by IndieWire

[see also 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019]

1. Succession
2. Dead Ringers
3. The Curse
4. The Bear
5. The Last of Us
6. Reservation Dogs
7. The Other Two
8. I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson
9. Barry
10. I'm a Virgo

And 10 More, For Good Measure

• Beef
• Dave
• Full Circle
• Mrs. Davis
• Perry Mason
• The Righteous Gemstones
• Scott Pilgrim Takes Off
• Somebody Somewhere
• Starstruck
• What We Do in the Shadows

Lili Loofbourow: Best Television Shows of 2023, as published by The Washington Post

1. Mrs. Davis
2. Beef
3. Succession
4. Reservation Dogs
5. The Bear
6. Somebody Somewhere
7. Jury Duty
8. Fellow Travelers
9. I'm a Virgo
10. Party Down

Nina Metz: Best TV of 2023, as posted by The Chicago Tribune in alphabetical order

[see also 2022]

• Annika
• The Bear
• The Diplomat
• Drops of God
• Only Murders in the Building
• Poker Face
• The Night Agent
• Schmigadoon!
• Swagger
• Young Love

Angie Han: Best TV Shows of 2023, as published by The Hollywood Reporter

[see also 2022 • 2021]

1. Reservation Dogs
2. Succession
3. Beef
4. The Other Two
5. Mrs. Davis
6. Last Call
7. The Bear
8. Scavengers Reign
9. Killing It
10. Somebody Somewhere

Honorable mentions (in alphabetical order)

• Barry
• Blue Eye Samurai
• The Curse
• Dreaming Whilst Black
• How To with John Wilson
• I'm a Virgo
• The Last of Us
• The Makanai: Cooking for the Maiko House
• Poker Face
• Slip

Daniel Fienberg: Best TV Shows of 2023, as published by The Hollywood Reporter

[see also 2022 • 2021]

1. Reservation Dogs
2. Succession
3. Beef
4. Wrestlers
5. I'm a Virgo
6. Dark Winds
7. Blue Eye Samurai
8. The Bear
9. Taste the Nation with Padma Lakshmi
10. The Last of Us

Honorable mentions (in alphabetical order)

• Bupkis
• Cunk on Earth
• Dave
• Dead Ringers
• Deadloch
• Fargo
• Happy Valley
• How To with John Wilson
• Telemarketers
• Welcome to Wrexham

Alison Herman: The Best TV Shows of 2023, as published by Variety

[see also 2017 • 2016]

1. Succession
2. Reservation Dogs
3. Somebody Somewhere
4. Poker Face
5. Dead Ringers
6. Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story
7. Gen V
8. The Righteous Gemstones
9. The Real Housewives of New York City
10. Scavengers Reign

Honorable mentions

• Barry
• How To with John Wilson
• Jury Duty
• Mrs. Davis
• The Other Two

Aramide Tinubu: The Best TV Shows of 2023, as published by Variety

1. The Last of Us
2. Heartstopper
3. A Small Light
4. I'm a Virgo
5. Fellow Travelers
6. Gen V
7. A Murder at the End of the World
8. Lessons in Chemistry
9. The 1619 Project
10. The Gilded Age

Honorable mentions

• The Buccaneers
• The Crown
• Frasier
• Swarm
• Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty
• Power Book III: Raising Kanan

BuzzFeed: 25 Best TV Shows of 2023

[see also 2022 • 2021 • 2010s]

1. Succession
2. The Last of Us
3. The Bear
4. Reservation Dogs
5. Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story
6. Jury Duty
7. Poker Face
8. Loki
9. Abbott Elementary
10. The Fall of the House of Usher
11. Gen V
12. Beef
13. Barry
14. Scavengers Reign
15. Heartstopper
16. Lessons in Chemistry
17. The Legend of Vox Machina
18. Ahsoka
19. Daisy Jones & the Six
20. Somebody Somewhere
21. Shrinking
22. Silo
23. The Other Two
24. Ted Lasso
25. Dead Ringers

Inkoo Kang: The Best TV Shows of 2023, as published by The New Yorker in alphabetical order

[see also 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2015 • 2014]

• Barry
• Beef
• The Curse
• Dead Ringers
• Fellow Travelers
• Reservation Dogs
• Scavengers Reign
• Somebody Somewhere
• Stolen Youth: Inside the Cult at Sarah Lawrence
• Succession

Honorable Mentions

• This Fool
• The Other Two
• The Last of Us
• Wrestlers
• Shiny Happy People: Duggar Family Secrets
• Dear Mama