Year-End Lists

Kelly Lawler: Best TV Shows of 2023, as published by USA Today

[see also 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2018 • 2017]

1. Beef
2. Fargo
3. The Bear
4. Party Down
5. Star Trek: Strange New Worlds
6. Schmigadoon!
7. Reservation Dogs
8. Good Omens
9. Abbott Elementary
10. Jury Duty

Esquire: 10 Best TV Shows of 2023, compiled by Brady Langmann and Adrienne Westenfeld

[see also 2020 • 2010s • 2018 • 2017]

1. The Bear
2. Reservation Dogs
3. Succession
4. Jury Duty
5. The Last of Us
6. Star Trek: Strange New Worlds
7. Barry
8. What We Do in the Shadows
9. Foundation
10. The Great

Matthew Gilbert: The 10 Best TV Shows of 2023, as published by The Boston Globe

[see also 2021]

1. Succession
2. The Bear
3. The Last of Us
4. Beef
5. Poker Face
6. The Other Two
7. A Small Light
8. A Murder at the End of the World
9. Shrinking
10. Fellow Travelers

Honorable Mentions

• Colin from Accounts
• Fargo
• Full Circle
• Rain Dogs
• Lessons in Chemistry
• Somebody Somewhere
• The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart

Judy Berman: Best TV Shows of 2023, as published by Time Magazine

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

1. Succession
1. Reservation Dogs
3. I'm a Virgo
4. Rain Dogs
5. Beef
6. The Curse
7. Telemarketers
8. Dead Ringers
9. The Other Two
10. Poker Face

Honorable mentions

• A Small Light
• Barry
• The Bear
• Extraordinary
• Fellow Travelers
• Party Down
• Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story
• This Fool
• Wrestlers
• Yellowjackets

Paste Magazine: The 25 Best TV Shows of 2023

[see also 2022 • 2021 • 2010s • 2019 • 2018 • 2017 • 2016]

1. The Bear
2. Succession
3. The Last of Us
4. Abbott Elementary
5. Poker Face
6. Barry
7. Only Murders in the Building
8. What We Do in the Shadows
9. Yellowjackets
10. The Fall of the House of Usher
11. Reservation Dogs
12. Beef
13. Star Trek: Strange New Worlds
14. Ted Lasso
15. The Other Two
16. I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson
17. Shrinking
18. Gen V
19. Good Omens
20. Our Flag Means Death
21. Party Down
22. Schmigadoon!
23. The Great
24. Cunk on Earth
25. Somebody Somewhere

Margaret Lyons: Best TV Shows That Ended in 2023, as published by The New York Times

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

• Barry
• Doom Patrol
• The Great
• Happy Valley
• How To with John Wilson
• The Other Two
• Reservation Dogs
• Single Drunk Female
• South Side
• Succession

Honorable mention

• A Black Lady Sketch Show
• Miracle Workers
• Painting with John
• Sex Education
• Summer Camp Island

James Poniewozik: Best TV Shows of 2023, as published by The New York Times

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

• The Bear
• Beef
• The Curse
• Dead Ringers
• I'm a Virgo
• Jury Duty
• The Last of Us
• Somebody Somewhere
• Reservation Dogs
• South Side
• Succession

Honorable mention

• Barry
• Blue Eye Samurai
• Dave
• Happy Valley
• How To with John Wilson
• I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson
• Killing It
• Minx
• Mrs. Davis
• Party Down
• Scavengers Reign
• The Traitors

Flawed but fascinating

• Foundation
• Hello Tomorrow!
• Three-Body
• The Wheel of Time

The Economist: The Best Television Shows of 2023

• Barry
• The Bear
• Beef
• Colin from Accounts
• The Crown
• Dead Ringers
• The Diplomat
• Fargo
• The Gold
• The Good Mothers
• Happy Valley
• The Last of Us
• Poker Face
• Succession
• Wave Makers

Nina Metz: The Best TV of 2022, as published by The Chicago Tribune, in alphabetical order

[see also 2023]

• Abbott Elementary
• Bust Down
• Couples Therapy
• Anne Rice's Interview with the Vampire
• Lost Ollie
• Rap Sh!t
• Slow Horses
• The Bear
• The Ipcress File
• The Lincoln Lawyer

Kevin Fallon: The 22 Best TV Shows of 2022, as published by The Daily Beast

[see also 2020]

1. What We Do in the Shadows
2. Better Things
3. The Good Fight
4. Somebody Somewhere
5. The White Lotus
6. Reservation Dogs
7. Barry
8. Severance
9. Bad Sisters
10. Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
11. Fleishman Is in Trouble
12. Abbott Elementary
13. Better Call Saul
14. This Is Going to Hurt
15. I Love That for You
16. The Bear
17. The Real World Homecoming: New Orleans
18. Anne Rice's Interview with the Vampire
19. We Own This City
20. Bluey
21. The Boys
22. A League of Their Own