December 15, 2021 - The streaming era is so packed with star vehicles and series adapting popular IP that it’s easy for an original show with an interesting premise that’s executed at a high level to get lost in the shuffle. Let that not be the case with For All Mankind. The second season of Apple’s unheralded sci-fi epic — set in an alternate history where the Russians put the first man on the moon and the Cold War turned into a never-ending space race — delivered the year’s best, most assured, most intensely satisfying stretch of TV.

January 3, 2022 - "Only Murders in the Building" came out on top as the best show of the year, with the most reviews on a perfect score. Find out which series made our list of the 94 Certified Fresh TV and streaming seasons that are of the best-reviewed TV shows ...

December 22, 2021 - From a new season of Succession to reboots of Gossip Girl and (eventually) Sex and the City, TV has seen plenty of heralded returns in 2021—and bid a few fond farewells, too.

December 28, 2023 - Critics Consensus: Part loving homage to TV history, part off-kilter mystery, WandaVision is a wonderfully weird and strikingly bold step into the small screen for the MCU - and a perfect showcase for Elizabeth Olsen and Paul Bettany. Starring: Elizabeth Olsen, Paul Bettany, Teyonah Parris, Kathryn Hahn ... Critics Consensus: Only Murders in the Building's silly approach to true crime obsessives is at once hilarious and insightful, thanks in large part to its extremely charming central trio. Starring: Steve Martin, Martin Short, Selena Gomez, Aaron Dominguez ... Critics Consensus: Grounded by a career-best Kate Winslet, Mare of Easttown's ambitions at times exceed its reach, but its central mystery is supported by such strong sense of place and character it hardly matters.

December 22, 2021 - This list is drawn from votes by Guardian TV writers: each votes for their top 20 shows, with points allocated for every placing, which are tallied to create this order. (BBC Three) For some years now, Liam Williams has been blossoming into one of the sharpest observers of niche contemporary culture. In the second season of Ladhood, though, he continued to turn his gaze inward, unpicking moments from his adolescence that were critical to his development. It might just be his best work yet.

December 13, 2021 - When TV critics compose their lists of the ten best TV shows of the year, what they’re really doing is identifying a group of breakthrough cases — not in the COVID-19 sense, but rather a creative one: Networks and streaming platforms are so crowded with viewing options that a series needs to do something daring, unusual, or too compelling to be ignored in order to really stand out. If it can pull off all three, even better. These were the kinds of stories from 2021 that the critics from Vulture and New York Magazine attempted to single out, from Reservation Dogs, the vibrant dramedy about life in an Oklahoma Native American community that landed on all four of our professional TV junkies’ lists, to The Underground Railroad, a powerfully filmed adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s novel, also a four-peat among this group.

December 3, 2021 - But for what it’s worth, in the course of a 25-year narrative that slowly pieces together what really happened during the 19 months the members of a girls varsity soccer team spent fending for themselves in the wilderness following a plane crash, the show also carves out some of the deepest, strangest and most distinctive characters in recent memory. With Reservation Dogs, creators Sterlin Harjo and Taika Waititi have given TV something it desperately needed: a great dramedy by and about Indigenous people. Set on a reservation in Harjo’s home state of Oklahoma, the year’s best new dramedy follows four teens mourning the loss of a beloved friend as they scam and save after adopting his dream of moving to California as their own.

November 30, 2021 - The best TV shows of 2021 revealed who we are as a people. Featuring Squid Game, Reservation Dogs, Maid, The Mare of Easttown, and more, here is the Esquire ranking.

December 22, 2021 - But Yellowjackets is very much its own terrifying-yet-engrossing creation, capable of finding new shades of darkness with each episode. To add to the accolades, the series has also managed to make meaningful use of multiple timelines, a feat that eluded several other 2021 shows, including .

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December 7, 2021 - From Bo Burnham to “We Are Lady Parts,” the best in television this year offered ingenuity, humor, defiance and hope. ... Published Dec. 3, 2021Updated Dec.

October 10, 2023 - Autumn 2021 belonged to Hailee Steinfeld, who turned in stellar performances across three of the year’s best shows: Hawkeye, Arcane, and Dickinson. It’s that final one that deserves particular attention, though. As the passionate and determined Emily Dicksinon, Steinfeld has anchored the Apple TV+ series for three vibrant, clever seasons that follow Emily as she comes of age in 19th century Amherst, Massachusetts.

December 29, 2021 - The best TV shows of 2021 included FX’s Reservation Dogs, Prime Video’s The Underground Railroad, and HBO’s Succession.

December 28, 2021 - As it smoothly switches gears — between its characters, its moods, its start to finish — Reservation Dogs shows it’s doing more than just revving its engine. It shows how far one of the most promising debuts of 2021 could go. —ZM ... Search Party’s ability to completely reinvent itself every season is the stuff of TV genius.

It’s a foolproof formula: Take a historical figure, make them hot, disregard the facts, and you’ve got yourself a TV show. William Shakespeare! The Borgias! Catherine the Great! At first blush, Dickinson seemed to fall into this fun, if flippant, genre: a 19th-century poet who speaks in Gen Z slang, played by a starlet and part-time pop star? Why not! There were worse ways for Apple to attract attention to its brand-new streaming service. But in the final two-thirds of its three-season run, both released in 2021, Dickinson showed there was much more to its setup than met the eye—the same argument, not coincidentally, the show makes about Emily Dickinson, its subject, protagonist, and muse.

October 21, 2021 - From Maid to Squid Game to Only Murders in the Building, these are the best new shows of 2021 on Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime, HBO Max, and everywhere else you watch TV.

December 17, 2021 - From Squid Game to Succession, Ted Lasso, Mare of Easttown and Maid, Hugh Montgomery, Amy Charles and Eddie Mullan pick the year’s greatest programmes to binge right now.

December 8, 2021 - Empire counts down the top 20 TV series of the year so far – from Squid Game to Succession, via Mare Of Easttown and It's A Sin.

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December 17, 2021 - Here's a sentence we never thought we'd write: former First Lady Michelle Obama fronts this cooking show for kids, flanked by a couple of puppets, namely Mochi (a mochi), and Waffles (a yeti-waffle hybrid – try not to think about it). The grand aim is to teach kids about where their food comes from and how to make healthier, more wholesome choices, but there's plenty in there for adults, especially adults with the munchies, if you catch our drift. ... The first series of Apple TV+'s counter-factual space race drama was pretty good, but it's come into its own in the second.