Year-End Lists

Emily Nussbaum: My Not-Top-Ten Television List, as published by The New Yorker

This site is devoted to lists, but we always look forward to Emily Nussbaum's annual defiance of this silly tradition. Click through to see why.

We've taken the liberty of omitting her dislikes and not-seens, but those lists are worth reading, too.

[see also 2019 • 2017]

Consistently Great — I'm Serious

• Succession
• BoJack Horseman
• Jane the Virgin
• High Maintenance
• The Americans
• The End of the F***ing World
• The Good Fight
• A Very English Scandal

Alienating But Worth It

• The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story
• Atlanta
• Nathan for You
• Random Acts of Flyness
• The Deuce

Worth It, but It Flew off the Rails

• Killing Eve
• Babylon Berlin
• Dietland

Good, Not Great, or Perfect, Maybe, but What Is Great?? Are You so Perfect?

• Glow
• Big Mouth
• The Good Place
• Orange is the New Black
• This Close
• The Bisexual
• Dear White People
• Pose
• Crazy Ex-Girlfriend

Fun!

• Younger
• You
• Drunk History
• Schitt's Creek
• Black Mirror, "USS Callister"
• Brooklyn Nine-Nine
• Claws
• Queer Eye
• My Brilliant Friend

These Are Movies, but They Were on TV-Streaming Services, so I Recommend Them

• The Tale
• The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
• Private Life