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As much as I feel like I saw a lot of movies last year, it turns out I spent far more time watching TV shows. 2022 was an absolute avalanche of good stuff on TV, and I doggedly tried to keep up with it as much as possible. Do I regret it? Maybe? So much of it was really good, though... I ended up seeing 89 shows that aired in 2022, including a couple standup specials (which maybe I should have put into the movie list instead?) but not including talk shows (shout-out to Wil Wheaton's The Ready Room).
Turns out it's pretty difficult to rank shows against each other, especially things as varied as reality game shows, documentary miniseries, and whatever The Rehearsal is, or even just comparing dramas and comedies. I'm not going to wimp out like the Golden Globes and split them up, though, so I put them all in order from best to worst. But even at the very top, I had a really hard time picking between Severance and Andor for my #1 show; they're both pretty awesome and special and I'm incredibly psyched for season 2 of them both. But I decided not to call it a tie, so I'm going with Severance. Congrats, Ben Stiller.
Anyway, take the relative rankings with a grain of salt, especially the five shows I haven't yet finished, marked with an asterisk in the list below (I was tempted to wait until I finished them all, but the year is fast receding into the rearview mirror and I wanted to stay somewhat fresh here). But to a first approximation, here's how much I liked these shows. And similar to my movie list, I do have good feelings about everything on here except for the bottom few, and even those I don't regret watching, I just... had higher hopes when I started them.
- Severance
- Star Wars: Andor
- The Afterparty
- House of the Dragon
- Reservation Dogs S2
- Barry S3
- Irma Vep
- Better Call Saul S6
- Peacemaker
- Russian Doll S2
- Slow Horses S1
- The Rehearsal
- The English
- Ms. Marvel
- This is Going to Hurt
- Star Trek: Lower Decks S3
- The Sandman
- Atlanta S4
- The Peripheral
- The Resort
- Shining Girls
- The Old Man
- The Patient
- Industry S2
- For All Mankind S3
- Pistol
- Westworld S4
- The Book of Boba Fett
- Kindred
- We Own This City
- Atlanta S3
- Star Trek: Strange New Worlds
- The Offer
- Interview with the Vampire
- The Time Traveler's Wife
- She-Hulk: Attorney at Law
- Mr. Mayor S2
- The Bear
- Stranger Things S4
- Star Trek: Prodigy
- Pachinko
- The Staircase
- Hacks S2
- Dark Winds
- Survivor S43
- Tokyo Vice
- Super Pumped
- Fleishman is in Trouble
- Big Brother S24
- The White Lotus S2
- WeCrashed
- Survivor S42
- Under the Banner of Heaven
- The Dropout
- The Amazing Race S34
- George Carlin's American Dream
- Obi-Wan Kenobi
- Celebrity Big Brother S3
- Claim to Fame
- The Essex Serpent
- 1899
- Abbott Elementary S2
- Conversations with Friends
- High School*
- Dahmer*
- Reboot
- Willow
- Winning Time
- Gaslit*
- Star Trek: Picard S2
- Dead to Me S3*
- Fear the Walking Dead S7
- The Mole
- Tales of the Walking Dead
- The Girl from Plainville
- Our Flag Means Death
- Loot
- The Walking Dead S11
- The Midnight Club*
- Star Trek: Discovery S4
- Moon Knight
- The Vow S2
- Better Call Saul Presents: Slippin' Jimmy
- Avenue 5 S2
- Norm Macdonald: Nothing Special
- Jerrod Carmichael: Rothaniel
- The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power
- The Challenge: USA
- The Real Love Boat
For the curious, here's a few more 2022 stragglers still on my to-watch list:
- Slow Horses S2
- Minx
- Extraordinary Attorney Woo
- Outer Range
- Paper Girls
- Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities
- Angelyne
- 1923
- Bad Sisters
- Black Bird
- Snake in the Grass
- Ozark, Euphoria, The Boys, The Crown - haven't started any of these yet, multiple seasons behind!