I think the prestige vibe you’re looking for can be found in: Severance, Ted Lasso, Silo, For All Mankind, the White Lotus, the Last of Us, Foundation, Shogun That’s not counting limited series, like Station Eleven or the Queen’s Gambit Great but not prestige: Invincible, Fallout, the Mandalorian, Andor, X-Men ‘97 Answer from MumbyMum on reddit.com
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Rotten Tomatoes
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The Best TV Shows of 2020 | Rotten Tomatoes
March 31, 2023 - Find out which unexpected series from this past year took the top spot in our list of 2020's best shows. See how your favorites ranked (or didn't) next to top shows like "The Queen's Gambit," "The Mandalorian," "The Boys," "The Umbrella Academy," ...
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IMDb
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100 the best TV Series Released in 2020
All 7,557 TV Series Released in 2019 (https://www.imdb.com/search/title/?title_type=tv_series&release_date=2019-01-01,2019-12-31&sort=num_votes,desc) All 3,744 TV Series Released in 2020 (https://www.imdb.com/search/title/?title_type=tv_series&release_date=2020-01-01,2020-12-31&sort=num_votes,desc) All 171,572 TV Series Released from 1900 to 2020 (https://www.imdb.com/search/title/?title_type=tv_series&release_date=1900-01-01,2020-12-31&sort=num_votes,desc) Best Tv series Rating min.
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IndieWire
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The 50 Best TV Shows of the 2020s (So Far)
July 24, 2025 - Who knew that a video game would make for one of the most mesmerizing shows of the 2020s? Well, maybe everyone who played “The Last of Us” after it debuted in 2013, but there was still plenty of risk in adapting the acclaimed bestseller for television. With writer Neil Druckmann heavily involved in the first two seasons, “The Last of Us” TV series stays faithful to its source material — not only in terms of story beats and visuals, but in preserving a gripping emotional core.
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Rolling Stone
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Year in Review: The 20 Best TV Shows of 2020
December 24, 2020 - From teen dramas to dark comedies, political satires, and more, Rolling Stone TV critic Alan Sepinwall ranks the 20 best shows of 2020.
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A Good Movie to Watch
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100 Best TV Shows of the 2020s So Far
Epic, poignant, and lighthearted, the ten-episode miniseries (adapted from the bestselling novel of the same name) is one of the few pandemic-set, post-apocalyptic shows that takes a closer look at the kind and creative ways humans approach survival. Read also: The cheapest live TV streaming services for cord-cutting
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The Guardian
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The 50 best TV shows of 2020: 50-1 | Television | The Guardian
September 13, 2024 - Michaela Coel’s smart, subversive and taboo-breaking drama gave us absolutely unbeatable television – plus more of the year’s best ... 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.
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IMDb
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Best TV of the 2020s
BoJack Horseman was the star of the hit television show "Horsin' Around" in the '80s and '90s, but now he's washed up, living in Hollywood, complaining about everything, and wearing colorful sweaters.CreatorRaphael Bob-WaksbergStarsWill ArnettAmy SedarisAlison Brie
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Thrillist
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Best TV Shows of 2020: Good Shows to Watch This Year - Thrillist
December 30, 2020 - The show, which has been renewed for a second season, mashes up absurdist humor (including having famously cantankerous tennis great John McEnroe narrate) with pathos. It's as much about Devi's grief over the death of her father as it is about her wanting to kiss boys.—Esther Zuckerman ... Season 2. 7 episodes. Is a TV show wherein two adult women (Maya Erskine and Anna Konkle) play middle-school versions of themselves opposite actual middle-school-aged actors a tough sell?
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Vulture
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The Best TV Shows of 2020
December 10, 2020 - Maybe the most joyful, lighthearted, and yet unmistakably fulfilling shows of the 2020 TV season, Never Have I Ever could so easily have been a half-baked teen drama that hit a bunch of familiar beats and then tapped out.
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Esquire
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35 Best TV Shows of 2020 - Top TV Series to Watch 2020
December 22, 2020 - From emotional final seasons to Stephen King adaptations to a reimagining of Nazi hunters, these are the best TV shows of 2020 thus far.
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ScreenRant
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20 Best TV Shows Of The 2020s (So Far) (#1 Is Undeniable)
November 12, 2025 - Part sports story and part exploration of how everyone should be optimistic and kind-hearted, the AppleTV series quickly became the kind of show that you either love watching or have had recommended to you too many times to count. Janine Teagues at a baseball game on Abbott Elementary · Created by Quinta Brunson, who plays kind-hearted and smart teacher Janine Teagues, Abbott Elementary would likely be many people's first choice for the best 2020s sitcom.
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Empire
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The Best TV Shows Of 2020 | TV Series | Empire
August 5, 2024 - A delightfully nihilistic take on the genre, the show managed to hit new highs in Season 2 with a sharper script, new characters (hello Aya Cash's Stormfront) and the same black humour as we peel back more of the layers on the show's core characters, with the odd exploding whale along the way. Props, as ever, to the incalculably great Anthony Starr who steals every scene as homicidal Superman clone Homelander. ... Different series were vital in 2020 for different reasons. The final season of Schitt's Creek wasn't revolutionary TV, but it provided a warm, gentle space to hide away from the horrors of the year.
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Films Fatale
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The 10 Best Television Series of the 2020s So Far — Films Fatale
January 1, 2025 - The series never receiving a single Emmy is highly nauseating when it is easily one of the most important series in recent memory; the quality of television since Better Call Saul ended is indicative of how desperately we need a show like it ...
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IMDb
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100 Best TV shows in the 2020s
Clint Barton aka Hawkeye has the mission to get back to his family for Christmas. But when a threat from his past shows up, Hawkeye reluctantly teams up with Kate Bishop, a skilled archer and his biggest fan, to unravel a conspiracy.CreatorJonathan IglaStarsJeremy RennerHailee SteinfeldFlorence Pugh
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NYTimes
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Best TV Shows of 2020 - The New York Times
December 2, 2020 - ... The best TV of 2020 included, clockwise from top left, “Schitt’s Creek,” “BoJack Horseman,” “Vida,” “Pen15" and “I May Destroy You.”Credit...Clockwise from top left: Pop TV; Netflix; Kat Marcinowski/Starz; Lara Solanki/Hulu; ...
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Slant Magazine
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The 25 Best TV Shows of 2020 - Slant Magazine
April 29, 2024 - With so many public events shut down—or, in the case of sports games, peopled by bizarre simulated crowds—TV this year became, more than ever, our distraction of choice. New shows became impromptu cultural events: The Queen’s Gambit sparked a renewed interest in chess, born out of our months-long solitude, while our fascination with weirdo fuckups manifested the collective embrace of the Tiger King. Even old shows found new lives through wider streaming availability, as the sardonic, hilarious misery of The Sopranos tapped into our current anxieties about generational rot and the mess left for the future.
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The New Yorker
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The Best TV Shows of 2020 | The New Yorker
December 10, 2020 - Félix makes a list of her favorite ... “Normal People,” “Ramy,” “I May Destroy You,” “Harley Quinn,” “City So Real,” “Teenage Bounty Hunters,” “How To with John Wilson,” “P-Valley,” “The Plot Against America,” “The ...
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IMDb
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Top 10 Best TV Shows of the 2020s
If you think a TV show should be on this list please comment below. I will keep updating this list as I watch more TV shows of the 2020s. Honorable mentions to: Adolescence, The Penguin, Loki, Arcane: League of Legends & Fallout.
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TIME
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The 10 Best TV Shows of 2020
November 25, 2020 - From the poignant final season of 'Bojack Horseman' to Michaela Coel's groundbreaking HBO series 'I May Destroy You.'