2022 in Review: The 20 Best Shows
TVLine’s annual year-end retrospective has officially begun, and we’re getting the toughest decisions out of the way first.
As we look back on 2022 — another superb year for television, by any measure — we know that our list of the very best TV shows from the past 12 months could easily boast dozens more deserving entries. Alas, our Year in Review begins with a ranking of only the 20 biggest standouts of 2022, which indeed went through several rounds of painful cuts.
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Back in June, we took stock of the year’s best TV series thus far, and several of those picks — including CBS’ Ghosts, Netflix’s Stranger Things and Prime Video’s The Boys — clung on to maintain a spot in our December ranking. But in the six months since that initial selection was published, we’ve become fans of newbies like Hulu’s The Patient and Disney+’s Andor, while returning vets like HBO’s The White Lotus and AMC’s Better Call Saul awed us with their latest outings.
But as much as we love a good spoiler here at TVLine, we won’t ruin the entire list for you. Keep scrolling to see our picks for 2022’s best shows — including our No. 1 pick for the best show — then drop a comment with your own favorites!
Still to come in TVLine’s Year in Review: Worst Shows of 2022, Biggest Plot Twists, Sexiest Scenes, Character Deaths That Nearly Killed Us, Shocking Cast Exits and much, much more!
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