Year-End Lists

Slant Magazine: The 20 Best TV Shows of 2022

[see also 2023 • 2019 • 2018 • 2017 • 2016]

1. Better Call Saul
2. Atlanta
3. Hacks
4. The Bear
5. Barry
6. Pachinko
7. The White Lotus
8. Better Things
9. The Rehearsal
10. Severance
11. We Own This City
12. Stranger Things
13. Euphoria
14. The Midnight Club
15. The Righteous Gemstones
16. Irma Vep
17. The Dropout
18. Survivor (season 41)
19. Abbott Elementary
20. Derry Girls

Honorable Mentions

• Andor
• Anne Rice's Interview with the Vampire
• The Patient
• Ramy
• Reservation Dogs

John Doyle: The 10 Best TV Shows of 2022, as published by The Globe and Mail

• The Bear
• The Patient
• The Girl from Plainville
• Severance
• Slow Horses
• The Staircase
• Pachinko
• Black Bird
• As We See It
• Chloe

Alan Sepinwall: The 20 Best TV Shows of 2022, as published by Rolling Stone

[see also 2023 • 2021 • 2020 • 2010s • 2019 • 2018 • 2017 • 2016]

1. Reservation Dogs
2. Better Call Saul
3. Atlanta
4. Barry
5. Severance
6. The Bear
7. High School
8. What We Do in the Shadows
9. Pachinko
10. Andor
11. Star Trek: Strange New Worlds
12. Russian Doll
13. Abbott Elementary
14. Better Things
15. Ramy
16. Los Espookys
17. The Patient
18. This Is Going to Hurt
19. Sort Of
20. Somebody Somewhere

Kathryn VanArendonk: The Best TV of 2022, as published by New York Magazine’s Vulture

[see also 2023 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019]

1. Reservation Dogs
2. Pachinko
3. Somebody Somewhere
4. Star Trek: Strange New Worlds
5. Severance
6. Industry
7. This Is Going to Hurt
8. The Last Movie Stars
9. Andor
10. The Bear

Roxana Hadadi: The Best TV of 2022, as published by New York Magazine’s Vulture

[see also 2023 • 2021]

1. Andor
2. The Bear
3. Reservation Dogs
4. Severance
5. We Own This City
6. For All Mankind
7. The Dropout
8. Pachinko
9. Girls5eva
10. The Righteous Gemstones

Jen Chaney: The Best TV of 2022, as published by New York Magazine’s Vulture

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

1. Severance
2. Better Call Saul
3. Somebody Somewhere
4. Barry
5. Reservation Dogs
6. The Bear
7. Better Things
8. The Last Movie Stars
9. This Is Going to Hurt
10. Abbott Elementary

Polygon: The Best TV Shows of 2022

[see also 2021]

The Top 10 TV Shows of 2022

1. Andor
2. Better Call Saul
3. Severance
4. Peacemaker
5. House of the Dragon
6. The Rehearsal
7. Yellowjackets
8. Players
9. What We Do in the Shadows
10. Reservation Dogs

The Best of the Rest

• Girls5eva
• The Righteous Gemstones
• The Bear
• Star Trek: Strange New Worlds
• Our Flag Means Death
• The White Lotus
• Derry Girls
• Station Eleven
• All Creatures Great and Small
• Slow Horses
• The Sandman
• Abbott Elementary
• The Good Fight
• Ms. Marvel
• Atlanta
• A League of Their Own

The Ringer: The Best TV Shows of 2022 compiled by Alison Herman and Miles Surrey

[see also 2020 • 2018]

1. The Rehearsal
2. Better Call Saul
3. Andor
4. The Dropout
5. Reservation Dogs
6. The English
7. Our Flag Means Death
8. The White Lotus
9. Severance
10. Pachinko

Honorable mentions

• This Is Going to Hurt
• Somebody Somewhere
• Dark Winds
• Slow Horses
• Abbott Elementary
• Los Espookys
• Hacks
• Atlanta
• For All Mankind
• Barry
• The Patient
• The Boys

Lorraine Ali: The 10 Best TV Shows of 2022, as published by The Los Angeles Times along with three quirky dance numbers for anyone who doesn't have time for an entire series or episode

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

• Our Flag Means Death
• Severance
• The January 6th hearings
• Abbott Elementary
• Keep Sweet: Pray and Obey
• The Serpent Queen
• Pachinko
• The Sandman
• Mo
• Bad Sisters

Robert Lloyd: The 14 Best TV Shows of 2022, as published by The Los Angeles Times, including only programs that debuted in the past year

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

• The Bear
• Paper Girls
• She-Hulk: Attorney at Law
• Ms. Marvel
• High School
• The Afterparty
• Pachinko
• Norm Macdonald: Nothing Special
• Rothaniel
• This Fool
• Gordita Chronicles
• Star Trek: Strange New Worlds
• Our Flag Means Death
• Standing Up