Year-End Lists

James Poniewozik: Best TV Shows of 2021, as published by The New York Times

[see also 2024 • 2023 • 2022 • 2020 • 2019 • 2018 • 2017 • 2016]

• Bo Burnham: Inside
• Dickinson
• The Good Fight
• Hacks
• Reservation Dogs
• It's a Sin
• Philly D.A.
• Station Eleven
• Succession
• The Underground Railroad
• The White Lotus

On the list last year, so let’s give someone else a chance

• PEN15
• What We Do in the Shadows

Honorable mentions

• City of Ghosts
• Couples Therapy
• Dave
• For All Mankind
• The Great
• Infinity Train
• I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson
• WandaVision
• We Are Lady Parts
• Yellowjackets

Flawed but fascinating

• David Makes Man
• Kevin Can F**k Himself
• Made for Love
• Rutherford Falls