Year-End Lists

A hand-curated, browsable index
of notable year-end lists.

TV Shows

Rachel Cooke: New Statesman The Best TV of 2021

For All Mankind

Kelly Lawler: USA Today Best TV Shows of 2021

Only Murders in the Building

Robert Lloyd: Los Angeles Times The 13 Best TV Shows of 2021

Reservation Dogs

Angie Han: Hollywood Reporter The 10 Best TV Shows of 2021

The Underground Railroad - Barry Jenkins

Daniel Fienberg: Hollywood Reporter The 10 Best TV Shows of 2021

Little White Lies The 25 Best TV Shows of 2021

Lorraine Ali: Los Angeles Times The 11 Best TV Shows of 2021

The Underground Railroad - Barry Jenkins

Matt Zoller Seitz: New York The Best TV of 2021

We Are Lady Parts

Roxana Hadadi: New York The Best TV of 2021

Station Eleven

Kathryn VanArendonk: New York The Best TV of 2021

We Are Lady Parts

Jen Chaney: New York The Best TV of 2021

The Underground Railroad - Barry Jenkins

Polygon The Best TV Shows of 2021

Hacks

Atlantic The 16 Best TV Shows of 2021

The Lady and the Dale - Nick Cammilleri & Zackary Drucker

Inkoo Kang: Washington Post Best of TV 2021

Reservation Dogs

Kristen Baldwin: Entertainment Weekly The 10 Best TV Shows of 2021

Doreen St. Félix: New Yorker The Best TV Shows of 2021

For All Mankind

Alan Sepinwall: Rolling Stone The 20 Best TV Shows of 2021

Matthew Gilbert: Boston Globe The 10 Best TV Shows of 2021

It's a Sin

Sight & Sound The 10 Best TV Series of 2021

High on the Hog: How African American Cuisine Transformed America

Caroline Framke: Variety Best TV Shows of 2021

The Investigation - Tobias Lindholm

Daniel D’Addario: Variety Best TV Shows of 2021

Pose

Margaret Lyons: New York Times Best Shows That Ended in 2021

Reservation Dogs

James Poniewozik: New York Times Best TV Shows of 2021

The Underground Railroad - Barry Jenkins

Judy Berman: Time The 10 Best TV Shows of 2021