Year-End Lists

Wired: The Best TV Shows of 2022

• House of the Dragon
• Andor
• The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power
• Severance
• Barry
• The Bear
• I Love That for You
• The Afterparty
• The White Lotus
• 101 Places to Party Before You Die
• We're Here
• Abbott Elementary
• Peacemaker
• Hacks

Kevin Slane: The Best TV Shows of 2022, as published by Boston.com

1. Severance
2. Andor
3. Better Call Saul
4. The Bear
5. The Rehearsal
6. Reservation Dogs
7. Pachinko
8. Atlanta
9. The Righteous Gemstones
10. The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power

The Guardian: The 50 Best TV Show of 2022

[see also 2023 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019]

1. The Bear
2. Sherwood
3. Severance
4. Hacks
5. The Responder
6. Big Boys
7. Better Call Saul
8. Industry
9. Derry Girls
10. This Is Going to Hurt
11. Top Boy
12. House of the Dragon
13. Yellowjackets
14. Atlanta
15. Pachinko
16. The White Lotus
17. Mo
18. Somewhere Boy
19. Station Eleven
20. Bad Sisters
21. Abbott Elementary
22. We Own This City
23. How To with John Wilson
24. The Tourist
25. Stranger Things
26. Julia
27. Somebody Somewhere
28. Heartstopper
29. Andor
30. Anne
31. Don't Hug Me I'm Scared
32. The Great
33. Frozen Planet II
34. Navalny
35. Am I Being Unreasonable?
36. Better Things
37. Black Bird
38. Cheaters
39. Ozark
40. Maryland
41. Barry
42. The Outlaws
43. The Walk-In
44. Love Life
45. The English
46. SAS: Rogue Heroes
47. The Dropout
48. Ellie & Natasia
49. Freddie Flintoff's Field of Dreams
50. Chloe

The Atlantic: The 15 Best TV Shows of 2022

[see also 2023 • 2021 • 2020]

• Andor
• The Bear
• The Rehearsal
• The Dropout
• Derry Girls
• The White Lotus
• Our Flag Means Death
• Somebody Somewhere
• Reservation Dogs
• Minx
• Severance
• Irma Vep
• Abbott Elementary
• Better Things
• Yellowstone

Little White Lies: The 25 Best Television Shows of 2022

[see also 2021 • 2019 • 2018]

1. Severance
2. Barry
3. The Last Movie Stars
4. Station Eleven
5. Somebody Somewhere
6. The White Lotus
7. For All Mankind
8. This Is Going to Hurt
9. Bad Sisters
10. The Patient
11. Yellowjackets
12. The Bear
13. The English
14. Hacks
15. The Good Fight
16. Pachinko
17. Andor
18. Abbott Elementary
19. Only Murders in the Building
20. Derry Girls
21. A League of Their Own
22. The Dropout
23. Babylon Berlin
24. Under the Banner of Heaven
25. Peaky Blinders

Dan Einav: Best TV Shows of 2022, as published by Financial Times

• The Bear
• Severance
• Station Eleven
• The Rehearsal
• Pachinko
• Russia 1985-1999: TraumaZone
• The English
• Abbott Elementary
• Bad Sisters
• The White Lotus

HuffPost: The Best TV Shows Of 2022

[see also 2023]

Reboots That Were Actually Interesting

• A League of Their Own
• Anne Rice's Interview with the Vampire
• Reboot

Great Second Seasons

• Reservation Dogs
• Hacks
• Starstruck
• Abbott Elementary
• The Sex Lives of College Girls
• The White Lotus
• Industry
• Sort Of
• Inside Job
• The Ms. Pat Show

New Arrivals

• Mo
• Pachinko
• The Baby
• Severance
• The Bear
• This Fool
• From Scratch
• Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty
• The Gilded Age

Returning Favorites

• Ramy
• Stranger Things
• Evil

Bidding Our Farewells

• Queen Sugar
• Ozark

Kristen Baldwin: The 10 Best TV Shows of 2022, as published by Entertainment Weekly

[see also 2023 • 2021 • 2020 • 2010s • 2019 • 2018]

1. Pachinko
2. Reservation Dogs
3. Barry
4. Better Call Saul
5. The Good Fight
6. Hacks
7. Better Things
8. Los Espookys
9. Severance
10. Reboot

Darren Franich: The 10 Best TV Shows of 2022, as published by Entertainment Weekly

[see also 2020 • 2010s • 2019 • 2018]

1. Better Call Saul
2. Primal
3. We Own This City
4. Barry
5. Players
6. Evil
7. This Fool
8. Below Deck: Sailing Yacht
9. The Bear
10. jeen-yuhs: A Kanye Trilogy

ScreenCrush: The Best TV Shows of 2022

[see also 2021]

1. The Rehearsal
2. Severance
3. The Bear
4. Better Call Saul
5. Reservation Dogs
6. Hacks
7. Andor
8. The White Lotus
9. Abbott Elementary
10. Stranger Things